Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hao!gatech!bbn!bbn.com!jgold
From: jgold@bbn.com (Jamie Gold)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Anti-Crossposting Feature suggested
Message-ID: <21451@bbn.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 23:00:52 GMT
References: <3542@killer.UUCP>
Sender: news@bbn.COM
Reply-To: jgold@cc6.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Jamie Gold)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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Keywords: stamp out cross-posting in my lifetime.

In article <3542@killer.UUCP> jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>How about a change to the news software which would mark some groups as
>not cross-postable to?  It shouldn't be too much of a bother to implement.
>I'd even volunteer to do it.

I'd like a feature that goes by message ID's so that you only see the cross
posted message once, instead of in every group you subscribe to that it's
posted to.  Perhaps some systems have such a feature, we don't.

-- jamie
"There's a seeker born every minute."