Xref: utzoo news.software.b:1277 news.misc:1319 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc Subject: Re: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion) Message-ID: <10162@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 29 Mar 88 19:45:10 GMT References: <507@fig.bbn.com> <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP> <2015@epimass.EPI.COM> <3203@phri.UUCP> <7773@oberon.USC.EDU> <653@omen.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 16 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. 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. Does anyone have an idea of what overhead this may entail? -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me