Triple posts?

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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"Jose" wrote in message
...
[...] 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

Nope. They will not. If they are, you are using it wrong.

I use OE, and I depend on that feature. I see it work all the time.

THAT is the mythical feature I seek.

It's not a mythical feature. All of the newsreaders I have used have it.

Pete

("Jose" wrote)
[snips]
Actually, I got curious and actually tried Outlook Express. It most
emphatically does not have this feature.

...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.


My M$ OE 6.0 does what you seek. How? I know not.


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
("Jose" wrote)
THAT is the mythical feature I seek.

My M$ OE 6.0 does what you seek. How? I know not.

Magic. It's always magic.

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:48:00 GMT, Jose
wrote:

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.

Forte's Agent does that. It keeps a database of headers it downloaded
and will automatically mark messages read in other newsgroups (if
you've read them there), and I believe it only marks them unread in
the first newsgroup you subscribe to that appears in the crossposting
list (so if it's posted as rap,ras you'll only see it unread in rap -
if it's posted as ras,rap you'll see it as unread in ras). And I
don't believe that feature is restricted to the pay version, I believe
it's even in Free Agent.

[...] 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

Nope. They will not. If they are, you are using it wrong.

I use OE, and I depend on that feature. I see it work all the time.

Me, too.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jose" wrote in message
...
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
--


OE 6 does it for me and it must have been the default setting because I
never set it and I can't find anyplace to turn it off.

Jose wrote:

THAT is the mythical feature I seek.

And it existed in the "rn" command in Unix when I used it last (long ago & far
away).

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

"Jay Honeck" wrote

Me, too.

Me, three! g
--
Jim in NC

My M$ OE 6.0 does what you seek. How? I know not.

Magic. It's always magic.

It's the magic smoke being kept in! ;-)
--
Jim in NC