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From: jdd@allegra.UUCP (John DeTreville)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: net overload...duplicate articles
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 18:13:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 18:13:22 1984
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One problem \I/ have with so many duplicate articles is not in having to
store them all or transmit them all, but in having to read them all. 
Readnews half-tries not to show you the same article twice in different
newsgroups, but only within the same invocation.  If the same article is
posted to net.ai and net.unix-wizards, say, and I don't have the stamina to
read all the way from net.ai to net.unix-wizards in one sitting, then I'm
going to see that article again the next time through, and that's a pain.

Moreover, posting to net.ai and net.unix-wizards (say) means that both
groups will tend to get all of the followup articles, which often go off on
tangents aplicable to only one of the groups.

Cheers,
John ("Oh No--It's Raining Again!") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill