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In article <25APR199206273979@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
> In article <1992Apr25.043041.21991@linus.mitre.org>, bchivers@smiley.mitre.org (Brent Chivers) writes...
> > article in its group for which you have the most interest.
> > In this case, multiply-posted articles are a greater annoyance,
> > because you find them presented to you repeatedly in each group.
>
> But that's only an annoyance if you tend to read every
> article without paying attention to the subject line.
> I believe that more advanced readers present each subject line only
> once for a newsgroup, with a number next to it indicating the number
> of articles in the thread. (I use VNEWS, which =doesn't= have this
> feature, so I've provided it for myself with auxilliary software.)

It's also an annoyance if you do notice that the subject is a
duplicate from some other group and you then want to junk the
article.  If the article were properly cross-posted, it wouldn't
have been presented again.

And the same subject doesn't necessarily mean the article is the
same.  A common subject like "room for rent" posted to dc.general,
dc.forsale, and dc.housing may be a multiple posting (that should
have been cross-posted), or it may be 2 or 3 different articles.
You don't really know until you look.

And on the net, you don't waste one person's time -- it's hundreds.
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Brent Chivers		McLean, VA		bchivers@mitre.org