Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!ukc!its63b!aiva!bert From: bert@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Bert Hutchings) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Cross-postings found to be harmful Message-ID: <105@aiva.ed.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:05:20 EDT Article-I.D.: aiva.105 Posted: Fri Jul 17 06:05:20 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 04:22:00 EDT Reply-To: bert@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Bert Hutchings) Organization: AI Applications Institute, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Lines: 8 If an article is posted to newsgroups A and B, and I subscribe to group A but not B, when I've read it (in group A, of course) its B article number is comma-concatenated on to the group B line in my .newsrc file. Some of the lines have got enormous in the last six months, and a manual clean-up shrank the file from 6.4 to 4.3 KB. If this happens everywhere, the disc suppliers must be laughing. E-mail any help to mn@uk.ac.ed.aiva, please. -- Bert Hutchings AI Applications Institute, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK