Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: News Network Administration and Cleanup Message-ID: <1098@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 23:23:07 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1098 Posted: Sun Aug 4 23:23:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:21:23 EDT References: <480@talcott.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 11 Xref: linus net.news:2982 net.news.group:2754 In article <480@talcott.UUCP> tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: >Likewise, with the current news software, cross postings do not use up >any significant amount of disk space (they are simply links). The reasons for suppressing CERTAIN cross-postings has never been that it costs disk-space, but that a) certain cross-postings are obviously inappropriate, and b) too many cross-postings are symptomatic of a problem with the newsgroup structure. C Wingate