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From: faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel P Faigin)
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Subject: Re: rn again - seeing articles more than once
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 11:17:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 11:17:26 1986
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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:
>>... cross-posted articles were supposed
>>to be seen only once, but that doesn't happen with rn.
>Unfortunately, that's the way rn works.

The reply was wrong. Rn does show cross posted articles only
once, however, most of what look like cross posted articles are
in reality separate articles posted to multiple groups. Rn (or
vnews or readnews, for that matter) can do nothing about these
articles.

Daniel Faigin (officemate of Larry Wall)

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