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From: smb@mhb5b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news
Subject: Re: suggestion to reduce posting on multiple news-groups.
Message-ID: <471@mhb5b.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 11:29:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: mhb5b.471
Posted: Wed Jun 29 11:29:54 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 11:47:33 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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The problem isn't articles posted to multiple groups, but articles posted
several times, once to each group.  Most extant copies of B netnews, and
all copies of A, will only show you an article once, no matter how many
groups it's posted to.  (There is a weakness in the B implementation, in
that you must read all of the groups used in one readnews session, or you
will indeed see the article more than once.)