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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Crossposting of Announcements
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.031235.11651@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1992Dec13.204007.17189@reed.edu> <1992Dec15.012306.22022@sfu.ca> <1992Dec15.015807.22210@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:12:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.015807.22210@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.012306.22022@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
- >>I read comp.os.linux.announce
- >>because I don't want to miss the announcement of any new toys. Then I
- >>have to read the same damn articles again in c.o.l! How can any sane
- >>person say this is an improvement?!
- >
- >At the moment, this is my fault. I intentionally crosspost articles
- >between the two groups for those sites that don't get c.o.l.a (and for
- >FidoNet). We plan to change this soon once c.o.l.a is more widely
- >distributed (and once Fidonet can pick up the new group). This should be
- >soon. If you have problems with this, please let me know.
- >
- I use trn, and it seems to magically skip articles in c.o.l. that I've
- already read in c.o.l.a.
-
- -Joel
-