From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux, again Date: 23 Oct 1992 22:11:44 GMT
In article <1c1b8tINNf7b@agate.berkeley.edu>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> In article <1c190qINNbrj@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
> |
> |If "comp.os.linux" gets broken up, it will have *disastrous* effects on
> |the pace of development. To be widely heard, people will have to cross-
> |post to multible newsgroups, but to be well-informed they'll have to read
> |multiple newsgroups. That means people (without threaded newsreaders?)
> |will have to put up with *lots* of duplicate articles.
>
> Bollocks they will. No newsreader, threaded or not, will show you a
> crosspost twice.
I guess you've never heard of or used the Waffle newsreader then have
you? Up to 1.64, at least, it couldn't track crossposts so you WOULD see
it twice. Don't know about 1.65 (current version). Try again?
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