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Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk> writes:

>>          Certainly the NNTPd at news.demon.co.uk will serve you the
>> same article twice from different newsgroups (I tested this by usng
>> telnet to connect and run the session).

>That's a slightly different way of doing things, you've deliberately gone
>and asked for the same article twice, you would get the same result if
>you telnet to the server, and try to get it twice from the same newsgroup.

>The way to really check is telnet news nntp, and issue a NEWNEWS command
>for a couple of groups, in which you know there's a crosspost, then check
>what you've received.

Hmm, I guess that my problem is that I have only read RFC977 (I think
thats the correct number), so I didn't know about later extensions
(XREF, XOVER, etc). I should check them out. But from my reading of
that RFC, NEWNEWS must give you the IDs of ALL new articles in a group
since a particular date - which means that even if it exists in
another group, it has to tell you that it exists in this one.

Cheers,
	Richard
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