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Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:47:15 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org+SayNoToSpam+
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> and la. When posting a new article to an umbrella group, unless there
> is an x-post to non-umbrella group specified, the server rejects the
> post. Simplicity itself, nah? :)
Yeah, that's a good idea and would do a lot for making the system work.
You'd probably want to have a lot of ".general" groups....
> So we can have
> lugnet.themes.town.minifigs.postmen
> lugnet.themes.town.minifigs.bakers
> lugnet.themes.town.minifigs.telecoms-engineers
> lugnet.themes.town.minifigs.ISP-geeks • [snip]
> This one is very much an example, BTW, in case you hadn't guessed ;) .
Hey, y'know, I wasn't serious when the idea was first proposed. But now I
kinda like it. Whatdya say, Todd -- wanna throw the entire status quo into
chaos for the sake of a better system for the future? *grin*
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) Hmmm, seems pretty messy to me, especially for deep hierarchies where there are many nested umbrealla groups. In that scenario, aren't you saying that if someone posted to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, the message would actually have to be crossposted (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Oh, absolutely. I'm not saying Todd should necessarily stick to the intent and letter of the RFCs always, I just think it's a good idea to do so. Helps prevent incompatibilities. (...) Good idea. Actually, I also think it may be a good idea to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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