Samuel Padgett wrote:
> 
> From the Gnus manual:
> 
>     Duplicate suppression is not a very subtle instrument.  It's more
>     like a sledge hammer than anything else.  It works in a very
>     simple fashion--if you have marked an article as read, it adds
>     this Message-ID to a cache.  The next time it sees this
>     Message-ID, it will mark the article as read with the `M' mark.
>     It doesn't care what group it saw the article in.

you can do the exact same thing with a simple procmail recipe.  it can
be argued (and as the gnus manual points out) that this might be
unreliable.  i use it anyway since i get loads of dupes.  you can save
them to a separate folder rather than deleting them outright if you're
paranoid.

the basic syntax is this (from the procmailex (5) man page:

        :0 Wh: msgid.lock
        | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache

or to save in the mbox folder 'duplicates':

        :0 Whc: msgid.lock
        | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache

        :0 a:
        duplicates

use at your own risk. i imagine you could easily use procmail to do
something similar to what gnus does as well (ie marking it as read)...
or you could just copy to a separate folder and go through that once in
a while.

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William Yardley                   System Administrator, Newdream Network
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