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From: kre@ucbvax.ARPA (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Reposting lost articles
Message-ID: <9046@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:47:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9046
Posted: Sat Jul 13 09:47:17 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 08:27:01 EDT
References: <1261@peora.UUCP>
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Summary: This is obviously a good idea (in most cases).  READ THIS PEOPLE!

In article <1261@peora.UUCP>, jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
(in an article with a Distribution of "usa" which I have deleted
for this followup - this is obviously appropriate for the whole
world.  I have shortened the original article somewhat)

> As is evident if you read net.sources.mac or net.micro.mac, lately there are
> a lot of very good programs being posted in pieces, pieces of which don't
> make it to some sites.
> 
> Suppose you are at a site that doesn't get an important article.  Now,
> that means many sites who you feed won't get it either.  However, you can
> usually get somebody else to mail it to you.
> 
> Now, given the previously lost article, which contains the original message
> ID, if your system administrator is one of the above knowledgeable net.news
> gurus, he can probably get it back into the network downline from where it
> was lost (I think), with the same message ID it had before.
> 
> It would seem (if I understand the Usenet software) that it would get fed
> along the path which has it missing, until it hit a site that already had
> it, after which it would not be passed further; thus filling in part of the
> gap that previously existed.

This isn't always going to work (it won't help the "corrupted article"
problem), but it should certainly help reduce net traffic on repostings
of articles that simply get "lost" somewhere.

No new news programs are needed, "rnews" does just the right thing.
Take an article (complete with headers, exactly as it appears in
some sites news directory) and "rnews