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From: lepreau@utah-cs.UUCP (Jay Lepreau)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Do not skip duplicates -- a different view
Message-ID: <2872@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 15:40:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 15:40:52 1984
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Don't be so quick to accuse old software.  The point is that
readnews doesn't remember already-read articles in mulitple
newsgroups across SEPARATE invocations.  With the huge volume
these days, many of us don't read news "all at once" anymore,
but read more important (to us) newsgroups first and more frequently
and leave the crud for later.  Apparently vnews does handle this.
It's a real deficiency in readnews in my opinion.