hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com (Harvey Newstrom) (08/02/89)
I get tired of reading the same article over and over. Some people cross- post to many newsgroups. Is there any way to get rn to suppress showing me an article that I have already read in another newsgroup? Is there some way to effect a KILL file that weeds out cross posted articles? Thanks... _____ Harvey Newstrom (hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com) (uunet!x102a!hnewstrom) (etc)
epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) (08/03/89)
In article <2439@trantor.harris-atd.com> hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com (Harvey Newstrom) writes: >I get tired of reading the same article over and over. Some people cross- >post to many newsgroups. Is there any way to get rn to suppress showing >me an article that I have already read in another newsgroup? rn is supposed to to this automatically--but it needs a bit of help in the form of crossreferences. Find a crossposted article and use the "v" command to see complete header. There should be an Xref: line present. If not, there's something wrong with the news transport on your site. Some sites use a package called "notes" that inserts multiple articles (it doesn't understand how to crosspost properly). There's nothing you can do in this case. -=EPS=-
travis@douglass.columbia.edu (Travis Lee Winfrey) (08/04/89)
In article <2439@trantor.harris-atd.com> hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com (Harvey Newstrom) writes: >I get tired of reading the same article over and over. Some people cross- >post to many newsgroups. Is there any way to get rn to suppress showing >me an article that I have already read in another newsgroup? Is there some >way to effect a KILL file that weeds out cross posted articles? Thanks... If cross-posting isn't on at your site for whatever reason, and you have KILL files, you can use the KILL files to junk messages appropriately. that is, if you read comp.lang.c before comp.misc, you can have /comp.lang.c/h:j in your KILL file for comp.misc. there are a number of problems with this solution, of course, mostly that it's slow and gross. it will cut down the number of messages you read unnecessarily, however. t Arpa: travis@cs.columbia.edu Usenet: rutgers!columbia!travis
bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) (08/04/89)
In article <2439@trantor.harris-atd.com> hnewstrom@x102a.harris-atd.com (Harvey Newstrom) writes:
: I get tired of reading the same article over and over. Some people cross-
: post to many newsgroups. Is there any way to get rn to suppress showing
: me an article that I have already read in another newsgroup? Is there some
: way to effect a KILL file that weeds out cross posted articles? Thanks...
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that you will have to take this to
the person responsible for your news software. My understanding is
that rn uses a special header line to determine which article numbers
the article is in its various newsgroups. However, not all news
software puts this line, the Xref: line, in. If yours does not then
your system administrator might want to upgrade his software so that
it does.
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