Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News: use of = in active
Message-ID: <1989Aug17.161352.21472@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Aug16.152943.26381@dlb.uucp>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 16:13:52 GMT

In article <1989Aug16.152943.26381@dlb.uucp> dave@dlb.uucp (Dave Buck) writes:
>... handled by having the last field in the active file for
>ba.wanted and ba.forsale be "=ba.market".  Sure enough, nothing now falls
>into ba.wanted or ba.forsale.  That's the good news.
>
>The bad news is that an article posted into ba.wanted and ba.market
>winds up as two separate articles in ba.market, ba/market/6994 and
>ba/market/6995...

This is certainly a bit ugly; I don't think Geoff or I seriously thought
about the possibility of articles being cross-posted to several groups
that got =ed to the same group.  It's pretty harmless if your news readers
all pay attention to Xref, but it is unattractive.  Is it actually
causing significant problems?
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