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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Do not skip duplicates -- a different view
Message-ID: <1204@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 13:47:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 13:47:48 1984
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> I view different newsgroups in different fashions. Perhaps few other
> readers do this, but I cannot believe that I am unique. I pass the
> contents of some newsgroups on to other people in printed form. To
> do this, I access some groups by specifying the group name and the
> "-p" option, direct the output to a file, and then dump that file to 
> a printer for one or more copies. Some of these groups overlap, such
> as net.audio and net.music.classical. If the software remembered that
> I had see posting "x" when pulling all the new net.audio messages, and 
> therefore skipped the other copy of posting "x" which was sent to
> net.music.classical when I try to retrieve all new postings from
> that group, it would cause me untold bother and trouble to compare
> the two outputs and locate and specially print the skipped messages.

I also forward some groups to a friend.  I set up a second .newsrc file
and a shell script sets NEWSRC to point to it, runs readnews -p, and
starts an 'at' job for the next morning.  (when we get 5.2 I can switch
to a cron gizmo.) This doesn't interfere with my news at all.

> Another situation: I sometimes will deliberately "n" across a posting
> where the header states it went to several newsgroups, if I would
> prefer to read that posting in the context of another group. I rely
> upon the current software's lack of memory across different sessions,
> so that the same posting will be presented to me again when I am
> accessing the other newsgroup. (I often look at one or several groups
> by using the "-n" option, instead of the entire mess in system-determined
> sequence.)
> 
> Will Martin

This problem is harder to get around. Vnews doesn't always present
articles in the group I'd prefer to see them in, but at 1200 baud it
beats seeing the same thing twice. (or 3,4,5... times)

Perhaps there could be a "present article in all groups posted to"
option.  Assuming most people only want to see articles once, this
should be the default.

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