Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!decwrl!flairvax!ellis 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 References: <374@ut-ngp.UUCP> <2001@alice.UUCP> uw-beaver>.694 Lines: 28 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