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Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:48:30 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org!nospam!
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> Let me see if I correctly understand what you're saying. In other words,
> if something originates outside of this newsserver, the newsserver should
> map/truncate
> Newsgroups: rec.toys.foo,rec.toys.foo,comp.lang.foo,lugnet.foo
> to simply
> Newsgroups: rec.toys.lego
> before injecting the article? I totally agree with that.
Hmmm. I'm not sure I like that. If I go to the trouble of explicitly saying
where a message should go (and if it's somewhere that that message has
every right to be) it seems like the server is making a mistake if it loses
some of my instructions.
> crossposting, does it mean that messages crossposted have to appear in two
> locations with actually different Newsgroups headers? (I think so.) If
> that's true, I think it's going against the NNTP specs (maybe not, but it's
> very odd anyway). It would also waste disk space because crossposting is
Yeah -- a mess.
> So... Do you think it would be accepted or flamed by people if
> rec.toys.lego were carried here, but you couldn't crosspost between a
> lugnet.* group and RTL? The server would actually have to -reject- the
> message.
Another thing to consider is messages posted via people's NNRP caching
servers, which might contain both lugnet and public usenet newsgroups.
If you're "splitting" cross-posted messages, you're going to get very weird
behavior here.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) I don't think I like it either... Not because I'm morally against modifying NNTP headers on a private server (I would be in Usenet context) but because of the confusion which would ensue (more below). (...) Yeah, splitting is definitely (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
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| (...) excellent key point! (...) Let me see if I correctly understand what you're saying. In other words, if something originates outside of this newsserver, the newsserver should map/truncate Newsgroups: rec.toys.foo,rec.toy...lugnet.foo to simply (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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