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Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 19:48:30 GMT
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mattdm@[nomorespam]mattdm.org
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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.


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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.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 (...) (28 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Should RTL be hosted on this server?
 
(...) 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 (...) (28 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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