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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting
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Date: 12 May 88 16:41:26 GMT
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>that when a message is crossposted, the posting program should
>automatically generate a Followup-To: line directing followups only to
>the first group in the Newsgroups: line.

>   Unfortunately, this proposal would require changing the installed
>news software at each and every network site.  And everyone knows that
>this simply isn't going to happen.

It will, over time. If the changes were made in either an official patch or
the next release, they'd propogate to a large percentage of the net in a
reasonable period of time. I don't particularly consider this a
life-or-death situation, just a way to improve things over time.

If you want it to happen NOW, you could patch inews to add the appropriate
restrictions to any article that was missing them. Or you could even, if you
want to get silly, put the code in sendbatch and update articles as they get
sent to your downstream sites (which would tie in with the priority batching
proposal I made). I, personally, prefer to keep downstream sites from making
changes to a given message without a very good reason.



Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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