 | | read/not read quirk on web interface? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | Am I seeing things, or is this behaviour what's happening? Suppose I have read some, but not all of the messages in a group. Suppose further that some of those messages are posted to multiple groups, and that some of them I read while in another (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: read/not read quirk on web interface? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) This is correct. The group listing ignores cross-posting x-refs. So if something is crossposted, it'll show up as two different articles in the web interface. But the thread view -is- smart enough to see cross-posting and only lists the (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: read/not read quirk on web interface? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Pardon my news ignorance, but that means that the article only exists once, right? Do articles exist independently of groups, and just have tagging associated that puts them into a group at a particular number, or do they live in one group (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: read/not read quirk on web interface? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Articles actually exist in multiple groups and in actual multiple files on the filesystem, but with filesystem hard-links linking them together so that they don't take up extra space on the fileserver, except for a tiny inode. The Xref header (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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