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From: welty@sunup.steinmetz (richard welty)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion)
Message-ID: <10164@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 29 Mar 88 22:22:04 GMT
References: <507@fig.bbn.com> <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP> <2015@epimass.EPI.COM> <3203@phri.UUCP> <7773@oberon.USC.EDU> <653@omen.UUCP> <10162@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
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Summary: pardon me for being stupid ...

In article <653@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
| An alternative to Xref was mentioned some time ago.  The
| reader program examines the Newsgroups: line, and displays the
| article iff the current newsgroup is the first subscribed-to
| newsgroup that appears on the article's Newsgroups: line.

In article <10162@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>This certainly sounds as if it will work, but of course each article
>must be edited in the newsgroup line to insure that the first group is
>one in place at the reader's site, or the first site must be discarded
>if not active.

Pardon me for being confused, but will it not be the case that if a reader
doesn't subscribe to the first group in the list, said reader will never
see the posting?  I think that this hack may be a little more complex
than it seems, if it is to be done correctly.
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