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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Reading cross-posted messages
Message-ID: <4164@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 16:59:26 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.4164
Posted: Tue Feb 17 16:59:26 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 07:26:28 EST
References: <646@pedsgo.UUCP> <1523@nicmad.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: Unisys - System Development Group, Santa Monica
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> In article <646@pedsgo.UUCP> evan@pedsgo.UUCP writes:
> <Also, when reading, if I post a followup to a message, that message does
> <not get marked as read until I go back and reread it.  This is annoying.

In article <1523@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) replies:
> Ya, I have noticed that too.  Maybe Larry should consider this a bug and
> send out a patch for it.  For now we are just going to have to look
> at it again to get it marked.

This has been considered before.  The conventional wisdom seems to be that
you don't have any business posting a followup to an article you haven't read.

!!!!

Nevertheless, it's easy to get the semantics you want.  Just add the
following lines to your .rnmac file:

f	jf
F	jF

(Note: adding these lines to your .rnmac file won't help if you aren't
running rn.)

I still heartily recommend reading the article you're responding to, however.
In fact, if it's something that someone else may have already responded to,
you should probably use 'M' to stash the article off to the side, and then
respond to it after reading the rest of the newsgroup.

Larry Wall
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