Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.c Subject: Re: synthesize a new newsgroup from a bunch of old ones. Message-ID: <8HL%*F_@b-tech.uucp> Date: 1 Jun 90 14:05:01 GMT References: Organization: Branch Technology Lines: 23 Sounds like a good idea - support for virtual moderated newsgroups. You get an article from somewhere (maybe even via mail) that contains a list of article ids. The news software looks up all the articles and creates links to put articles in this virtual group. You could just delete the current history entrys for the articles and add updated ones. Very handy for creating "suggested reading lists" (sort of a moderated group that doesn't suffer from some of the distribution problems). You would have to do something about references to articles that arrive before the article does (like save and reevaluate the references once in a while or have the person/thing sending them out relist the articles several different times). I suppose you could do everything in the newsreader (ie, it would make a single article containing article ids appear as a real group) but that may be more complicated. Anyone working on something like this? It would certainly resolve many of the moderated/unmoderated arguments. -- Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ) zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us I found a groundhog chewing on my car!