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From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: restricting cross postings
Message-ID: <289@luke.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 12:57:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 12:57:43 1985
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References: <513@oliveb.UUCP> <1300010@ccvaxa> <431@othervax.UUCP>
Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
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Keywords: cross-posting indirect link

In article <431@othervax.UUCP> ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn) writes:
>Assuming that the main problem with cross posting is disk space & xmission
>time/costs and not the fact that we have to wade through the same article
>over and over as we readnews, the solution is SIMPLE (in concept):
>
>Introduce one level of indirection in the way news files are held

Unless I'm mistaken, the news software (2.10.2 B) is even more efficient 
than this - it only maintains one copy of the article on disk.  All
others in other newsgroups are links to the first.  So it would seem
that the problem is not space.

My problem with cross-postings (although somewhat alleviated by the Xref
patch) is having to see them multiple times.  I'm not concerned about
disk space.  I just hate rereading the same articles.  The Xref patch to
rn 4.3 (and the same facility in the readnews/vnews stuff) only works if
you see both copies in the same invocation of the program.  What would
be useful is a way of knowing that you've already seen one link of the
article.  How about the .newsrc file?  Larry - could this be done?

Again, the problem is neither one of space nor time of transmission.
Only one copy of the article is stored (is more than one sent?), so the
problem is one of irritation rather than resource.
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