'rn' isn't marking cross-posts (was 'Too much cross-posting?')

[Bud Hovell]

In article <970 at rush.cts.com> bob at rush.cts.com (Bob Ames) writes:
>In article <694 at whizz.uucp> bbh at whizz.UUCP (Bud Hovell) writes:
>>Yes - 'rn' seems to have a problem here. The site name aortuars in the Xrefs
>>line, but still doesn't mark cross-postings as read. Any gurus out there who
>
>Why don`t I have a probelm with this?  I never read something twice.  I will

Lemme understand this - you want to know why you *don't* have this problem?
I never have asserted that you (or anyone else) had it or ought to have it.
And certainly cannot account for why you do not. :-)

>admit that one single article which is cross-posted will show up as something
>like "1 article in unix-pc.general, 1 article in comp.sys.att" but when I go
>to read them, I *never* see it twice.  Is the current problem just that you`re
>bothered by being told that you`ve got one more article that you should be?

No - the SAME ARTICLE appears in full in, say, unix-pc.whatever, then later
aortuars AGAIN in full in, say, comp.sys.att. And, yes, the Xrefs line has the
site name in it, and news was compiled with DOXREFS. Everything else seems to
function fine.

Obviously, we are doing something wrong here locally. Once everything gets
back to normal (we have been up and down for the past three days with hard-
ware problems, now fixed), we'll go back and recompile 'rn', as Lenny suggests.
 
                                 Bud Hovell

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