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From: pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News software (was: Thoughts on the new-group creation process)
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Date: 4 Oct 89 15:32:18 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.

Sorry to correct you Dave,  but in at least some instances of C news,
the article is still broadcast.  I noticed this with the newgroup control
message (perhaps a special case?) for comp.dsp.
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