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From: amb@dasys1.UUCP (A. M. Boardman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Auto-expiration of news
Summary: What about article propogation?
Keywords: newsgroup propogation
Message-ID: <8048@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 08:37:17 GMT
References: <1066@psuhcx.psu.edu> <2694@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: amb@dasys1.UUCP (A. M. Boardman)
Organization: Big Electric Cat PA Unix, NYC
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In article <2694@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>On the other hand, if someone subscribes to a currently unavailable group,
>the daemon would reactivate it.  And vnews/readnews/whatever would inform
>the reader that the group isn't currently carried, but will appear in a few
>days.  Of course, certain groups (such as comp.mail.maps) would have a special

Under this system, how do you get articles to propogate to the rest of the net?

Sample situation:

backbone!feedsite!site-with-only-one-or-two-feeds

If nobody on the feedsite(s) happened to subscribe to a particular newsgroup,
all the stuff posted downstream from it in that group never gets out to the
rest of the net.  Think about it.

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A.M.Boardman  Big Electric Cat PA Unix  ![hoptoad|phri|(uunet)]!dasys1!amb