weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Emacs Weenie) (03/26/88)
In article <224535ed:1259@snark.UUCP>, eric@snark (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >In article <3203@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: >> Why do you need either Xrefs or the history file to eliminate >>seeing cross posted articles twice? Why not just keep track of the inode >>number of every article file you open? >You are absolutely right. I will implement this, Will this work under NNTP? > it should fit neatly into the >scheme I'm already using to support backtracking and discussion trees. I don't know what scheme your using. But I'd appreciate it if you didn't break other people's schemes (ie, mine). In particular, none of your art- icles put the responded-to article message-id up in the "References:" line. Thus, you responded to Roy Smith @phri, but your references make it appear to be Joe Buck @epimass. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (03/27/88)
In article <8040@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba (a small gnews-ance) writes: > In particular, none of your art- >icles put the responded-to article message-id up in the "References:" line. You're right, thanks for pointing this out. I will fix it as soon as I finish reading news today. BTW, I have dropped the idea of holding i-node numbers to do global seen- checking; the only reasonable way to do it, it turns out, would have had some undesirable side effects on my session code. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718