petrick@lll-crg.ARPA (Jim Petrick) (08/16/85)
Can anyone tell me a way to junk articles that have been cross posted? More specifically, I would like to junk the cross postings of an article I have already read in another newsgroup. Is this possible? Thanks, Jim Petrick (petrick@lll-crg)
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (08/20/85)
> Can anyone tell me a way to junk articles that have been cross posted? > More specifically, I would like to junk the cross postings of an article I > have already read in another newsgroup. Is this possible? Assuming "junk" means "ensure that you don't see again" (i.e., it's not some "rn" term with a specific meaning inside "rn"), there's no way to do it for cross-postings which have been split into two or more postings by broken news systems along the way, or by cross-postings generated by somebody mailing to the ARPANET mailing lists INFO-UNIX and UNIX-WIZARDS, say, and getting the same message posted separately to net.unix and net.unix-wizards. If the article was posted, rather than gatewayed, and there are no sites running such broken news software, you should only see the article once. Guy Harris