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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Do not skip duplicates -- a different view
Message-ID: <2276@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 00:53:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  4 00:53:13 1984
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Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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Will Martin says that he LIKES the readnews "feature" that articles that
are posted to multiple newsgroups can be seen twice if you view the
groups in separate readnews invocations, and makes use of it in various
ways.  I contend that his uses are unusual, and that most users would
like duplicate suppression across invocations.  However, I would not
begrudge him the ability to do what he does; perhaps there should be an
option to control this feature (the default being to suppress
duplicates).

He also mentions that this facility would require adding information to
the .newsrc.  I guess he wasn't aware that vnews already does it without
adding ANY information to the .newsrc.  It just looks at the Newsgroup:
line, and only shows the message if the current newsgroup is the first
group in the list to which the user subscribes.  This mechanism has the
added benefit that you see all the postings in a chain in the same
newsgroup.
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			Barry Margolin
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