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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Reading an article in whatever newsgroup you encounter first
Message-ID: <4312@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 4 Apr 88 03:32:02 GMT
References: <507@fig.bbn.com> <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP> <2015@epimass.EPI.COM> <528@drilex.UUCP>
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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I use vnews as my news reader and I regularly get bit by the way it
will only show you an article in the first newsgroup on the Newsgroups:
line to which you subscribe.

Often when some interesting discussion cross-posts into a newsgroup I
read, or I see a pointer to a group I don't usually read, I will go there
and try to read the discussion.  Vnews will only show me the parts that
aren't cross-posted to some group I subscribe to (whether or not I
actually get around to reading that newsgroup).

From what I hear of rn, it improves on this behaviour by noticing when
you have read a message and marking it as read in all newsgroups to which
it is posted.  There are no other criteria for "should I show him this
message, which is the next one in the newsgroup" other than "has he seen
it already?".  I like that.  Let's not make it impossible in the new 
netnews implementation.

[I don't use "rn" because it asks too many questions.  I like giving commands
a lot more than answering questions.]
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