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From: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help?! Rn shows me crossposted articles twice
Message-ID: <1236@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 11:20:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 11:20:48 1987
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Summary: Possible explanation.

In article <308@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>I have rn working on this machine (finally), with all 40 or so patches.
>I thought it was smart about showing articles more than once, but I keep
>seeing articles, with Xfef: lines, shown in every newsgroup they belong
>to.  I'm running 2.11 news.

As far as I understand the situation, the patches to rn (and to news)
that handle cross-references deal with what happens when you read an article;
at that time its clones get marked as read as well.  But if you use
the rn "catch up" command ('c') to mark everything in a newsgroup as
read, it certainly seems as if it doesn't mark all the clones as read.
This can be considered a feature or a bug depending on your preference. :-)
-- 
Rich Kulawiec, rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu, s.cc.purdue.edu!rsk