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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: suggested enhancement to rn
Message-ID: <512@genrad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 09:45:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 09:45:38 1984
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In article <319@qantel.UUCP> stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) writes:

>As has been mentioned before, many times, rn is a great program, and
>Larry did a super job!  The only thing I miss from vnews, a deficiency
>that rn seems to have, is described below.
>
>The problem is that if an article is posted to three groups I read, I
>get to see the article three times.  Vnews only let you see the article
>once.

Have you applied all the rn patches?  I only see articles ONCE with rn.

In fact, the algorithm used is BETTER than that used in vnews!  With vnews,
you see the article in the first newsgroup posted to that you also subscribe
to (or something complicated like that).  And if you 'K' that newsgroup, you
will never see the article.

With rn, you see the article in the first newsgroup that you READ that it
was posted to, then it is marked read, and you never see it again.  And if
you 'c' that newsgroup (mark all articles as read), then multiple posted
articles are not marked as read yet!   GREAT STUFF!