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From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion)
Message-ID: <224535ed:1259@snark.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 88 15:25:26 GMT
References: <507@fig.bbn.com> <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP> <2015@epimass.EPI.COM>
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Summary: You sure know how to make a guy feel *dumb* :-) :-) :-)

In article <3203@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	Why do you need either Xrefs or the history file to eliminate
>seeing cross posted articles twice?  Why not just keep track of the inode
>number of every article file you open?

You are absolutely right. I will implement this, with a by-default-off switch
that forces the present checks via history file in case anyone actually *does*
distribute SPOOL across multiple file systems; it should fit neatly into the
scheme I'm already using to support backtracking and discussion trees.
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