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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.eunice
Subject: Re: Origin of the name grep (actually Eunice!)
Message-ID: <341@genrad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 15:39:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 15:39:23 1984
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Well, I know of no solution to Eunice keeping multiple copies
of articles around (If you havn't got links, you haven't got
them!).  However, vnews has an article selection algorithm
(easily incorporated into standard "readnews") which does not
involve links or inodes or such, but which checks the newsgroups
line against the groups posted to and those to which you
subscribe.  It will show you the article in the FIRST newsgroup
to which it was posted to which you also subscribe.

The solution is to FIX THE BROKEN SOFTWARE!  Don't say "dont
post to multiple newsgroups", because that is sometimes the
only way to reach the desired people.  What really burns me
is the people who post to several newsgroups SEPERATELY
rather than in a single posting to multiple groups.