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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Removing newsgroups from header
Message-ID: <3672@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 18:07:17 GMT
References: <12563@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <12563@polya.Stanford.EDU> weening@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes:
>When an article is cross-posted to several groups, some of which are
>unknown, should the news software preserve all of the names in the
>"Newsgroups:" line?

Up until version 2.10.2, unknown newsgroups were stripped.  2.11 and C
news preserve all newsgroups.  I'm not sure what 2.10.3 did.  The RFCs
specify that all newsgroups should be preserved.

In your example, you have

>    Newsgroups: misc.headlines,ca.general,ca.earthquakes

It went through a machine running old news that stripped the "ca"
groups.  The fastest way to move news from SF to LA often goes out
of state, so this type of thing used to happen a lot before 2.11
became common.

>Perhaps we can identify the culprit, and fix their software.  I have a
>feeling this is happening fairly often but goes unnoticed.

Based on the paths you show, shelby, lll-winken, brutus.cs.uiuc.edu,
or gem.mps.ohio-state.edu must be guilty, and I very much doubt that
it's the Ohio State machine.



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