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Subject: 
Re: DejaNews and sff.net
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:31:22 GMT
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:45:38 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

> Wow, thanks for the info.  Now I'm extra glad that From-line validation
> exists.

> I don't think it is a problem if someone mirrored these groups in a
> read-only manner (and it's probably not a bad idea to have mirrored
> somewhere anyway) but if they started accepting articles, then things could
> get pukey.

> But if someone runs an NNRP server (I think that's the right terminology--?)
> and acts as a normal NNTP client, then theoretically no problems will arise.
> I think this is what Matt M. is looking into...(?)

I was pointing out though, that, when you get other servers caching
the groups that Dejanews and other archivers might get a hold of the
articles.

Sarah



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(...) Sarah, Wow, thanks for the info. Now I'm extra glad that From-line validation exists. I don't think it is a problem if someone mirrored these groups in a read-only manner (and it's probably not a bad idea to have mirrored somewhere anyway) but (...) (28 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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