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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: restricting cross postings
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 17:04:26 EDT
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>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.

Sorry, Steven, but this is JUST NOT TRUE!!!!!!!   The Xref patch really
updates the .newsrc and is UNRELATED to the session in which the news is
read!  The vnews algorithm is different, but still unrelated to the
session in which one is viewing the news!  (The article is only shown in
first newsgroup which it was posted to that you subscribe to.)

In fact, only the readnews algorithm has the "session" problem, and for
all I know, it may have been fixed by now.  The algorithm was to keep
all the inode numbers of the articles that had been read that session,
and match against them before the start of each article.   Needless to say,
I don't use "readnews" anymore.