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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Idea for nntpd
Message-ID: <FLEE.89Sep22154020@shire.cs.psu.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 19:40:20 GMT
References: <14506@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <FLEE.89Sep22130759@shire.cs.psu.edu>
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In article <14527@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>,
   Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu> writes:
> the news system does currently block until site A finishes
> processing the article.

Yes, for B news.  I was more interested in article locking in
conjunction with C News and NNTP batching, which doesn't require
blocking, and would in fact be painful to block for.
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!flee