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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
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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