[net.news.b] multiple newsgroup articles

msc@qubix.UUCP (06/06/83)

	I see news 2.10 has fixed one problem associated with articles
	posted to multiple newsgroups but not the other one.

	You can now go back to such articles without resorting to
	editing your .newsrc file.  (Thank god.)  However if you read
	the article in one newsgroup, exit readnews and, in a later
	invocation of readnews, see the second group the article was
	posted to, you will see the article again.

	Does anyone have a fix?

				Mark

ka@spanky.UUCP (06/09/83)

I at least have an algorithm for this, although I haven't gotten
around to implementing it.  Rather than keeping a list of aritcles
which have been seen, find the first newsgroup that the user sub-
scribes to in the list of newsgroups that the article was posted
to.  If that group is not the current group, don't show the article.

In order to handle the "junk" and "control" newsgroups, the article
should be shown if the article wasn't posted to the current newsgroup
at all.  Also, the article should always be shown if abs (the "ask
absolutely" flag) is set.
				Kenneth Almquist