feature request - option to disable x-posts mark read in other groups

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From: Urs Janßen <[email protected]>
To: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Subject: Bug#301020: tin: freeze after catchup

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> > if you don't like that feature you can recompile with
> > --disable-xhdr-xref. on 'normal' configured servers this is no
> > disadvantage, but on servers which do not have the Xref:full in
> > thier overviews tin isn't able to mark crossposted articles as read
> > when one of them is read.
> 
> I don't understand. When doing a catchup, tin shouldn't mark the
> crossposted versions as read since they haven't been read. This

of course it should, that's what x-post are for (if you read it in
one group you don't have to read it again in another group) - that's
the way all newsreaders handle crossposts and that's the way tin ever
handled crossposts.

> is particularly important when an article is crossposted to a
> low-bandwidth group and a high-bandwidth group (or a group on a
> less important topic). In the latter one, I don't have the time
> to read everything, so that I often do a catchup there without
> checking in details first. Or there could be an option concerning
> the catchup behavior.

feel free top implement it (or just do it as well all do it, read the
low traffic grouos before catching up the high traffic groups).

urs
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