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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: trn and crossposting
Message-ID: <110802@convex.convex.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 14:28:06 GMT
References: <9153@scolex.sco.COM> <1366@bullwinkle.UUCP>
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In article <1366@bullwinkle.UUCP> chris@toontown.UUCP (Chris Andersen (The Dangerous Guy)) writes:
:In article <9153@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

:>The version of trn I have does not appear to support crossposting.  This
:>makes it very annoying, as I keep reading the same article over and over and
:>over...

:I think the problem is that the normal cross-posting mechanism of rn while
:reading articles is still working, but it doesn't work in the thread menu
:section (i.e. kill a thread which has crossposted articles and those articles
:will still appear when you go to read another newsgroup).  Are there any plans
:to "fix" this?

I've already asked the author about this.  It uses the catch-up code to
do this, and doesn't go hunting down all the xrefs, which would take
much longer.  He says it's not likely to change.  Don't worry, you'll
eventually become inured to this behavior.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me