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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: My RN does not handle Cross-Postings!
Message-ID: <231@logicon.arpa>
Date: 8 Dec 88 20:01:55 GMT
References: <962@sword.bellcore.com>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <962@sword.bellcore.com> yba@sabre.bellcore.com (Mark Levine) writes:
>Perhaps it is just me or nntp, but we have compiled 2.11 with DOXREFS and
>I _still_ see cross-posted articles more than once from time to time.  It
>might be worth actually listing the articles affected and see if something
>funny is going on.

In rn you can use the "v" command to see all of the headers (try it
now!), including the Xref: line, if any.  I run news 2.11 with DOXREFS
and the only problems I see are with multiple postings, where diff
shows different message IDs (often consecutive) in the two
instantiations of the article.

Also noteworthy is the fact that the (c)atchup command in rn does
*not* track down cross-posted articles and mark them as read in other
newsgroups.  This is particularly noticeable in misc.wanted and
misc.forsale, which people seem to frequently cross-post between for
some reason.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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