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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cross-posting restrictions
Message-ID: <337@maynard.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 19:43:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: maynard.337
Posted: Fri Aug 29 19:43:56 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Aug-86 03:10:46 EDT
References: <1919@dciem.UUCP> <461@hdsvx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works Inc., Maynard, MA
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In article <461@hdsvx1.UUCP> hoffman@hdsvx1.UUCP (Richard Hoffman) writes:
>Why don't we write some new software for the net which would allow
>"linked" cross-posting?  That is, cross-post only once, but only one
>copy of the posting goes across, accompanied by pointers for the
>cross-posted groups.  An important requirement of such a system would
>be the ability to mark something read *once and for all* -- if I read
>it in net.legal, I don't even want to see it when I get to net.politics.

This is already true!  So don't go implementing it, please!  When you
cross-post, only one copy of your article is transmitted across a link.
If you use "rn" to read news (why use anything else?) and have applied
the "Xref" patch to the news software (the patch comes with "rn") then
when you read an article, it's marked read, and you won't see it even
if it's cross-posted to subsequently read newsgroups.
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