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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.software.b
Subject: News software (was: Thoughts on the new-group creation process)
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.030208.22524@rpi.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 03:02:08 GMT
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In <1989Sep30.050659.21928@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack):
DM> Wrong, at least in news2.11 and C news. If an article is received with 
DM> no valid news groups, it goes into junk and isn't broadcast to neighboring
DM> sites, regardless of the Distribution field. NNTP may behave differently.

NNTP doesn't behave differently because it doesn't behave on that
level at all.  NNTP is just a transport mechanism; it interacts with
the existing "News Overlord Software" which makes the real decisions
about where to put articles and to whom to forward them.

Just trying to clear up a misunderstanding before it spreads too far.
Follow-ups to news.software.b which has become a general news.software
group.  Perhaps it is time to really change the name.

Dave
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