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From: ka@spanky.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: B does not strip non-local newsgroups anymore
Message-ID: <369@spanky.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 14:08:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: spanky.369
Posted: Mon Jun 13 14:08:33 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 03:56:34 EDT
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Alas, yes.  In release 2.9, there was a problem posting to multiple
groups.  Let's say I post an article to nj.events,net.sf-lovers.  When
the article leaves New Jersey, the nj.events newsgroup will be stripped
off.  If the article re-enters New Jersey, peolpe who subscribe to
nj.events but not net.sf-lovers will not see the article.

The solution proposed by Mark Horton in the USENET Interchange Standard
was to not strip the newsgroup name off.  This works as long as all
newsgroup names are unique throughout the net, and has the additional
advantage of allowing a site to send identical copies of an article to
all it's neighbors.

Currently newsgroup names are not unique.  Making them unique involves
two steps.  First, local groups should have the local site name included
in the group name.  (Thus general becomes spanky.general on spanky).
Second, other non-netwide distributions should be centrally registered
to avoid duplication.
				Kenneth Almquist