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From: dricej@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion)
Message-ID: <528@drilex.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 13:27:38 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> <10164@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: dricej@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson)
Organization: Data Resources/McGraw-Hill, Lexington, MA
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In article <10164@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> welty@sunup.UUCP (richard welty) writes:
|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.

Actually, the problem with this is if the user *does* subscribe to both
groups, but only reads one occasionally.  I subscribe to a lot of groups,
but much the time I never get to them.  (However, when my feed gets
erratic, and I'm starved for news...)  'Xref:' allows me to read a message
in the first group I come to.

For example, if an article about modems catching fire and burning houses
down were posted to 'misc.consumers.house,comp.dcom.modems', I'd like
to read about it when I get to comp.dcom.modems.  (I do a lot more 
modem-hacking than house-hacking.)

'readnews' operates the way Bill Davidson suggested today.  I prefer the
way that 'rn' does it.


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Craig Jackson
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