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From: Stephen Mulrine
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <815567842_OASIS_@yr-ynys.demon.co.uk>, neil@yr-ynys.demon.co.uk
(Neil Martin)
>I wonder if it would be possible for you to close and exit nos immediately
>after the headers have arrived, edit all the headers from your new nos log
>into a batch.txt file (not including the ones whose articles you want to
>read), unbatch your news and then log on again. Nos would percieve all the
>headers of the articles you don't want as duplicates and proceed to
>download the others.

I think you'd need to put the Message-IDs in the "history" file, but this
ingenious solution has at least one obvious flaw: how do you tell whether
or not you want to read an article based on its Message-ID alone?

Stephen
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From: Stephen Mulrine <robotron@moroder.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Usenet Newsgroup Browsing
Date: 1995/11/05
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