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Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:15:31 GMT
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:09:56 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
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> I looked around a bit in the newsserver code last night and I was thinking
> of setting up a virtual newsgroup called _lugnet as a test case, and just
> filling it manually with some stuff, and seeing what happened with a few
> newsreaders. Before I do that, though, I'll need to make sure that certain
> parts of the system can ignore the group, since it won't be "real." If that
> test goes well, then another group, say, _lugnet.loc, might be another to
> try with some real data.
Because of the "other parts of the system", is the prefix thing a
necessary/near necessary step?
> Yah, or else perhaps alternatively, a message posted out of the blue to, say,
> _lugnet.cad could be sent to lugnet.cad without giving an error message. That
> could work for just about any virtual umbrella group except the top-level one
> and a couple others like _lugnet.admin and _lugnet.market...
I don't think it should work like that. Less incentive to
micro-classify threads.
Jasper
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