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? -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu