Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Sorry about those orphaned responses Message-ID: <1054@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:39:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.1054 Posted: Mon Aug 19 10:39:41 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 07:21:57 EDT References: <18800007@hpfcla.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 9 > 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.