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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: moderated newsgroups created
Message-ID: <5432@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 12:13:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 12:13:20 1984
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For those who will be reading BOTH mod.xxx and net.xxx; is there ANY way,
prior to displaying the article and recognizing it (that is, from the 
header display alone), to determine that you have already read  the
article in question on the other group? I doubt it -- such articles
won't simply have "mod.xxx,net.xxx" in their headers. So we will have
to wade through at least the beginnings of articles we have already read
(and, with the automatic inclusion of replied-to articles at the start
of postings, maybe we will have several screens to scan through before it
becomes clear that this particular article is one we've already read!).

THIS sort of problem is why I have repeatedly talked about the "mod"
groups containing all the worthwhile traffic from the corresponding
"net" group. Once a mod.xxx group exists, those of us without infinite
time to spend should be able to unsubscribe to the equivalent net.xxx
group, and feel assured that anything of import appearing on net.xxx
WILL also appear on mod.xxx.

If this is not done, all that results is more groups to wade through!

Quit yelling about "net.fascism" and think about this problem. It is
important! The only posting other than mine that I've seen which
addresses this issue is the one about "sel.xxx" selected groups. Is
this likely to occur?

(One suggested solution: ALLOW "mod.xxx,net.xxx" to appear in the
"Newsgroups:" line; postings addressed to a "mod" group get
automatically mailed to the moderator address, but the full
"Newsgroups:" line is maintained on BOTH the "mod.xxx" and "net.xxx"
displayed headers.

This would at least let us recognize that we might have already read
the item.)

Will Martin

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