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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Famous Cross-Posters
Summary: Their Just Rewards
Message-ID: <564@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 21:08:02 GMT
References: <6966@well.UUCP> <129@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <129@jetson.UPMA.MD.US> john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) writes:
>In article <6966@well.UUCP>, pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
>> And now, the winner, with twelve newsgroups:
>And best of all, out of all the twelve newsgroups, he didn't even
>include the correct one for his request: comp.sources.wanted!

I stumbled on the fix for excessive cross posting.  I built news on
a 286 and after a few fixes to get news working,  I'm up and running.
A few weeks later I notice a few 0 length articles.  Then a few
more.  I figure its a bug, but low priority to fix since there are so few
of them comming in like that.

Turns out, its A FEATURE (in my mind).  Those 0 length articles are
all excessively cross posted articles!  Intel somehow implemented
the RRM (Read Readers Mind) instruction on the 286, and conveniently
dumps those articles in the bit bucket without me having to do a
thing.  They took RRM out of the 386; Motorola never had it.  And
everybody thinks the 286 is an architectural disaster.  Hah! :-)
-- 
		Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc.

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