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From: on@hpda.UUCP (Owen Rowley)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes
Subject: Re: Prohibition of postings to multiple groups - a bad idea
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 14:34:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 14:34:19 1985
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Reply-To: on@hpda.UUCP (Owen Rowley)
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Here at H.P. we mostly use notes, which uses input from news for net.*
if you use postnews and specify more than one newsgoup at a time.
our version of notes will only post it in the first newsgroup given
and ignore any others.. this means that a major proportion of HP 
notes users are not seeing a lot of articles..
I first noticed this because  I was using both notes and rn ..
It was obvious that I was getting articles in net groups with rn
that I was not seeing with notes.. Investigation showed that most of the 
articles that were missing from notes were posted to multiple groups.
unfortunatly rn and news is not available to the majority of HP machines
or users. I am sure that there are other nodes were the situation is similar.
So if you really want to be sure that everyone sees your article posting
to multiple groups is not the way to go..
LUX.. on
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