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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A helpful suggestion
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.011917.17116@rpi.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 89 01:19:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: rpi.1989Nov19.011917.17116
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In <49460@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
Brad> On another note, it is interesting to think what would happen if we put
Brad> an outward bound aliasing scheme into news -- probably into sendbatch,
Brad> even with simple sed scripts.

Brad> Then a group could come in with any name, where you would map it to
Brad> your local name (rec.fish?).  On the way out, it gets mapped back.

We already do have this.  For example, when I had articles come in for
alt.sca recently my active file said to refile them to rec.org.sca.
They were, though the Newsgroups: header still said alt.sca both on
site and to the rest of the world.

Dave
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