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In article <DGpBMB.6HL@news.cis.umn.edu> allan@mnhepw.hep.umn.edu (Graham Allan) writes:

> 
> In article <19951018.010902.89@arcangel.demon.co.uk>, pjb@arcangel.demon.co.uk (Peter Burwood) writes:
> |>I agree with Philip here. I believe he is following standard Usenet
> |>practice by properly cross-posting the article. The software is to blame.
> |>
> |>However, there is a very simple fix to Newsbase to overcome TTFN's
> |>deficiency.
> 
> Please, nobody email me about it - it's ***not*** a deficiency in Newsbase!
> 
> TTFN doesn't use the Xref: header line to mark crossposts as read. I believe
> that Messenger, when it's finished, will do so.

Graham is correct and I did try to make this point clear. The deficiency
is in TTFN and all I posted was a work-around to cross posted articles.

Someone has emailed me with a problem he had with my patch. This could
be due to the editor being used having problems with the compressed
BASIC file (a known restriction of BASIC mode editing which sometimes
happens with compressed files). The safest way to change a compressed
BASIC file is always to load it into BASIC and fix the line there and
then save from BASIC.

regards,
Pete
-- Email: pjb@arcangel.demon.co.uk