Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric
From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: need patch for controlling cross-posted articles
Summary: 3.0 has something like this
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Date: 19 Sep 88 16:01:59 GMT
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Organization: Wild-Eyed Extremists for Freedom, Inc.
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In article  Gordon Moffett writes:
> 	If an article is cross-posted, generate a "Followup-To:" line
> 	which includes only ONE newsgroup, which is the first in the
> 	list from the "Newsgroups:" line.  (An existing non-null
> 	"Followup-To:" line would not be overridden.)

In 3.0, the Newsgroups line on a followup is truncated to the first group
unless the '-C' option has been given to postnews. This gives a similar
effect without raising the retransmission overhead on the article.

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