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From: tp@ndm20
Newsgroups: net.news.notes
Subject: Re: mod.computers.* vs. notes
Message-ID: <2500003@ndm20>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 18:30:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 18:30:00 1985
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Nf-From: ndm20!tp    Nov  8 17:30:00 1985


Hmm... I don't have any of the problems you allude to. I do use wild-cards, and
my notes get to my feed in long-name form, because notes, not the shell, 
expands the wild-cards. I do have a problem occasionally in that there are 
rogue groups on the long names site with chopped shortnames style names. I
guess they came from elsewhere. I am running notes 1.7. There may be problems 
with old sites of which I am not aware. 

I can tell you how to cross pollinate those groups if you are interested. I 
just had to install an alias file to prevent it from happening. If two other
sites around here don't install alias files real soon, there will be some
cross pollination. I was tempted to just let it happen, but the readers of
those lists are the victims, not Fair. This happened because I picked up a
redundant feed. Any shortname site with 2 feeds, where each leads eventually to
a longname site before being gatewayed back to news will cause the cross-
pollination if no alias files are used. It is that simple, and I and one of
my feeds both qualify to do it. 

Terry Poot
Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers
(214)739-4741
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