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  Re: read/not read quirk on web interface?
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: read/not read quirk on web interface?
 
(...) 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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