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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: restricting cross postings
Message-ID: <2211@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 11:34:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 11:34:37 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 08:11:38 EDT
References: <513@oliveb.UUCP> <1300010@ccvaxa> <431@othervax.UUCP> <289@luke.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Keywords: cross-posting indirect link
Summary: 

In article <289@luke.UUCP> itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) writes:
>                                                 ...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?

Er, uh, what can I say?  That's an excellent idea.  I think I'll do it
about 2 years ago.  One moment while I visit my DeLorean...

ZAP!

Okay, go check out your .newsrc now.  It should now remember Xref'ed articles
from session to session.  Anything else you'd like?

Larry "How'd he do that?" Wall
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