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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Sorry about those orphaned responses
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:39:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 10:39:41 1985
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> Or, consider the habit of cross-posting to many newsgroups at once.  On
> the notes side, such articles show up in each different notesfile (and
> consume redundant disc space).  Why?  Because a feature was added to
> news at some point, but not to notes.

This is a common misconception, that cross-posting, especially as implemented
by links, was a feature added to news at some late date.  Not true -- it
was in the very first pre-prototype implementation (a shell script!),
and has been present ever since.