Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Upgrading Usenet (was Re: Who pays the bill?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.040234.16964@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug04.171540.29439@looking.on.ca> <26BCDA30.21C@intercon.com> <1990Aug7.180710.3872@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug14.181725.9003@fts1.uucp>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 04:02:34 GMT

In article <1990Aug14.181725.9003@fts1.uucp> michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) writes:
>  Do the C News batchers strip the 'Xref' or is the receiving system
>supposed to strip it (if it were a C News system, it would obviously
>do so). Not really a problem, my downfeed's just found it a little
>strange..

Theoretically, Xref is not supposed to be transmitted.  In fact, every
news system I am aware of sends it, expecting the destination system
to strip, ignore, or rebuild the header.  This is mentioned in our
notebook/rfcerrata document.
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It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry