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In article <823906057snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
   John Washington <john@wash.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> But are you trying to send stuff via 'post' to cut
> out multiple copies of mail going out?  I keep
> meaning to do some mods on Snews to improve that.

It is only intended to "optimise" the routing of individual mails. If one 
mail is CC'd to several people then provided that only one .TXT file and 
one .WRK with multiple recipients listed is presnt then that's no 
problem.

I'm starting to see the problem here - pc-elm/snews presumably generate 
multiple messages for [B]CC'd mail, rather than sending one via a 
smarthost (as cppnews, if configured correctly, will do)?

Looks like I'm coming at this from a different angle....

Presumably, though, multiple mails will always have consequtive job 
numbers? If the body of two consequtive messages is identical, therefore, 
I could combine the .wrk files accordingly?

This requires a little more thought....

(I doubt that it would cope with messages edited later, though, unless 
you can think of a good way of deciding whether or not they should be 
processed. However, do you edit the .TXT file directly, or through pc-
elm/snews? If directly, how would it be if you ran REWORK on leaving 
snews/pcelm rather than prior to running KA9Q? Then, multiple messages 
would have been combined and you'd only have one to edit. Unless, of-
course, you wanted to only edit one of the copies....)

> p.s. Oh, sorry Mark, I forgot mods to Snews wouldn't
> help you.  :-)  Isn't it time you switched to a
> news/mail reader that has plenty of development
> still going on?

At least cppnews is sending CC'd messages via a single host rather 
than making me upload two (or more) copies.....

I'm looking to move over to Cheetah sometime soon, though, just to 
confuse things even more :-)

Mark.
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