As far as newsreaders that do have the [skip crossposted articles
already read in another group] feature go, well...Outlook Express
has it. Forte's Agent and Free Agent both have it (you can get Free Agent
for, duh, free). I've never used the 4titude newsreader, but surely it has
it also. Any command-line-based newsreader (e.g. rn an a *nix system) would
have it as well.

Actually, I got curious and actually tried Outlook Express. It most
emphatically does not have this feature. It can skip to the next unread
post in a newsgroup (Mozilla and Netscape can do that too), but if I've
read (for example) all of the "Nasa Icing courses" articles in r.a.ifr,
and they were crossposted to r.a.piloting, they will be presented to me
again, as new, in r.a.piloting, in Outlook Express as well as in
Netscape. Since the headers of a properly CROSSposted (as opposed to
multple posted) article have an identical identifier, it should be
possible for a newsreader to recognize it as read, even if it was read
in a different group.

THAT is the mythical feature I seek.

Jose
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