Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news aliases in the active file
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.205226.7456@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan28.170455.18630@cjsa.wa.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 20:52:26 GMT

In article <1991Jan28.170455.18630@cjsa.wa.com> jeff@cjsa.wa.com (Jeffery Small) writes:
>If someone crossposts an article to both of these groups, then C news
>generates two copies of the article in "comp.sys.3b1".  Both copies have
>the same message ID and in fact, the files are identical in the spool
>directory.

In fact, if you look carefully, you will find that they are, in fact,
two links to the same file.

>Is there a clean and simple way to eliminate the duplication of these
>articles?

Nothing off-the-shelf.  A newsreader that respects the Xref header line
will only show you one of them anyway.  It's a peculiar quirk, but
relatively awkward to fix, and it didn't seem worthwhile.  It's not eating
up any extra disk space (except to the small extent that directory entries
consume disk space).
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