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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: News Network Administration and Cleanup
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 23:23:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 23:23:07 1985
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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