From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!tim Newsgroups: net.general Title: 2 requests to all posters Article-I.D.: unc.4502 Posted: Wed Jan 12 12:29:30 1983 Received: Fri Jan 14 03:05:39 1983 These are two things which all posters of news should be aware of. Posting an article to two or more groups makes it impossible to see the article more than once by any means during a session using the standard readnews interface. This is particularly important to note in articles which contain addresses or other material that should be saved, since the standard procedure is to read an article and then "s-" if it is something you want. The "-" will not work on articles posted to multiple groups, nor will speci- fying the article by number. If using the "vi" text editor, it is possible to use nroff without leaving the editor. Go to line one and say "!Gnroff ". This replaces everything until the last line with what nroff puts out with those lines as input. This produces articles that are much more pleasant to read. However, you will have to strip away leading and trailing blank lines yourself. If you already knew these, or if they don't apply to you, I'm sorry to take up your time, but there is no other way of insuring that they get to the many people they are targeted at. Tim Maroney unc!tim