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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News software (was: Thoughts on the new-group creation process)
Message-ID: <5654@inco.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 19:40:26 GMT
References: <4365@utastro.UUCP> <34795@apple.Apple.COM> <305@6sigma.UUCP> <1989Oct4.030208.22524@rpi.edu> <1989Oct4.153218.14076@ginger.acc.com>
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In article <1989Oct4.153218.14076@ginger.acc.com> pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina) writes:
>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.

My apologies - yes, it appears that non-local control messages always
propagate. There may be a couple of other exceptions as well, but in
general, an article which has no valid newsgroups will be junked and
not be sent to other sites.

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Dave Mack				McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems
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