Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvax1.cs.psu.edu!flee From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Lots of dups Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 20:22:12 GMT References: <1989Oct25.164024.14894@ctr.columbia.edu> <1989Oct26.164042.4692@utzoo.uucp> <70859@uunet.UU.NET> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 9 Rick Adams writes: > Wouldn't having nntpd keep a history file of the articles it had > accepted that day give you both ? Yes, except you need a "maybe-I-have" NNTP response, if you want reliable article transmission. "Maybe-I-have" means you should try offering the article to me later, and see what I say. -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!flee