Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!guy From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Cross posting deleting Message-ID: <2678@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 02:16:26 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2678 Posted: Tue Aug 20 02:16:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:03:40 EDT References: <533@brl-tgr.ARPA> <889@ccice5.UUCP> <789@lll-crg.ARPA> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 14 > Can anyone tell me a way to junk articles that have been cross posted? > More specifically, I would like to junk the cross postings of an article I > have already read in another newsgroup. Is this possible? Assuming "junk" means "ensure that you don't see again" (i.e., it's not some "rn" term with a specific meaning inside "rn"), there's no way to do it for cross-postings which have been split into two or more postings by broken news systems along the way, or by cross-postings generated by somebody mailing to the ARPANET mailing lists INFO-UNIX and UNIX-WIZARDS, say, and getting the same message posted separately to net.unix and net.unix-wizards. If the article was posted, rather than gatewayed, and there are no sites running such broken news software, you should only see the article once. Guy Harris