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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion)
Message-ID: <3203@phri.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 16:08:56 GMT
References: <507@fig.bbn.com> <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP> <2015@epimass.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: Why do you need Xrefs at all?

jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
> What there is demand for is that rn not be broken.  Another option is
> to provide a patch to rn to do cross-referencing through the history
> file.  (Hey, there's a fourth option!). Either way will do.

	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?  This forces you to keep the entire
/usr/spool/news hierarchy on a single file system but I don't think that's
a big problem (how many people keep /usr/spool/news/comp on one filesystem
and /usr/spool/news/sci on another?)
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016