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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Been Mentioned? feature
Message-ID: <6562@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 23:01:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 23:01:17 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:55:20 EDT
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: quick check to see if reply has been made

How about adding a feature to 'rn' that will do some checking to see if
the current article has been replied to.  Two ways to do this come to
mind:

(a) Simply check forward through the newsgroup looking for an article
    that references the current one.

(b) Check forward through the newsgroup for an article that references the
    current one _and_ includes a user-supplied string.

The idea is to prevent hundreds of answers to simple queries (a major
problem as we all know).

//Is he going to pop into his DeLorean again?//

                                                -- Scott