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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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Subject: Re: rn again - seeing articles more than once
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 10:58:56 EST
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In article <377@ho95e.UUCP> wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill Stewart 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs HO 2G202) writes:
>In article <1609@Shasta.ARPA> interran@Shasta.UUCP (John Interrante) writes:
>>Anyone else who see articles cross-posted to more than one group more than
>>once, i.e., in every group the article's posted to?
>>...
>Unfortunately, that's the way rn works.  If you're willing to give up
>rn's better features (killing discussions, for instance), you can
>either use vnews (a screen-oriented news reader) or readnews (the old
>but reliable dumb-terminal version), both of which only show a cross-
>posted article once.  Has anyone hacked rn to to this?

hmmm... I guess it's time for Larry to get back into his DeLorean...

rn ALREADY does this!  If the article is CORRECTLY cross-posted
it will only appear ONCE (to wit, spaf's newsgroup postings, I only
see them ONCE).  But if somebody posts the same article N times
to N newsgroups then it will be seen N times.  There is no software
that will fix that (er... at least not reasonable software).


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