On Sun 12 Jun 2005 07:39:42a, Melba's Jammin' wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> In article >,
> (Phred) wrote:
>
>> In article >, "Peter
>> Aitken" > wrote:
>
>> >Perhaps some newsreaders have a feature to filter out crossposted
>> >messages and that's what you are talking about, but most people
>> >will see them all.
>>
>> What sort of friggin' broken newsreader are you using for chrissake?
>> Jesus! Even my 8-year-old News Xpress can get that right! They don't
>> "filter out" crossposted messages, they simply mark a message as Read
>> in *all* crossposted groups once you've seen it or "caught up" in
>> one.
>
> But the message header is still seen. In NewsWatcher (for Macintosh),
> it's marked read in all the groups if it was read in one of the groups
> -- but it's still seen. Maybe you guys are arguing because of semantics.

Xnews can kill any messages that are crossposted. You never see them. You
can select how many groups a message is crossposted to before the message
is killed.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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