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From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news
Subject: Re: suggestion to reduce posting on multiple news-groups.
Message-ID: <145@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 13:52:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: flairvax.145
Posted: Fri Jul  1 13:52:09 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 20:42:27 EDT
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   Some articles, like this one, get posted unnecessarily to several
   newsgroups. If I had any choice in the matter, it'd have only gone
   to net.news, but being a followup to an article in multiple
   groups, I am unable to edit out the second one.

   Forgive my ignorance, but after rereading readnews 2.9 documentation
   MANY times, I still can't figure out how to control where my articles
   go in any way other than typing "f" (or "f ") to another
   article in the desired newsgroup. This means I cannot start up a new
   discussion in a newsgroup that has been dead for a while. Or add or
   remove a newsgroup to the one(s) in which I am responding.

   Logic tells me that there is surely some way to submit an article
   to a newsgroup without using "f" -- unless first articles to groups
   are created by superusers forging fake submissions in appropriate
   spool directories to respond to.

   The only command that I never use is "X " because no matter
   what I type for , it refuses to do anything but glorb out
   an error message. Exactly what is this undocumented thing called
    ? Is my readnews broken ?

   It would also be nice to have 2.10 (I've got plenty of blank tape).

		      Even with its colons.

			     Michael