chris@ntvax.UUCP (Chris Britton) (05/30/89)
Greetings from North Texas.
I am using the "rn" news reading software. DOXREFS was defined when
inews was compiled so when I read or junk articles that are cross-posted
to other news groups I don't have to see them again. That seems to work
fine when I actually "read" or "junk" the article.
My problem is when I enter "c" to "catchup" and mark all articles in a
group as being read. If an article in the current group is cross-posted
to other groups, I still see it in the other groups after doing the "catchup".
Is that a bug or is that the way it's supposed to work?
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Chris Britton chris@dept.csci.unt.edu
{killer,iex,convex,utd,texsun}!ntvax!chris
University of North Texas 817-565-2279brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (05/31/89)
I think it's the way it is supposed to work, for two reasons: 1) If you wanted it to get the others, it would have to read every article, and that would be SLOW, particularly in some cases. 2) Usually you catchup just to say you're tired with a group, or that you have followed all the chains you want to follow. You might see a title that bores you in talk.bizzare, but it might interest you in sci.space. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) (06/02/89)
I created an rn macro (or stole it, don't remember now) to mark all the articles in the current group as read *everywhere*. It is invoked with CTRL-C, leaving plain old "c" as it was. ^C $/\136/:j^J -- Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod "Life is indeed an inexplicable sequence of imponderable surprises."