Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Why do I get junk newsgroups? Message-ID: <1991Feb19.215318.23089@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <20752@teda.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 21:53:18 GMT In article tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: >Yes and no. Henry and Geoff will maintain that it is a feature which >helps the propagation of valid new groups, and this is a reasonable point >which I appreciate... This one is clearly a two-edged sword, to be sure. However, to be realistic one *must* acknowledge that things like group-creation messages often do not get the complete propagation they should. The net is a much messier place than one would think on theoretical grounds, and robustness in the face of such things is important. >... There are two >possible changes; a) rewrite the header in inews to substitute correct >names for the refiled groups or b) give an error as with the n or x >flag. The latter is much easier to implement. There is a good chance that the latter will appear in the official C News distribution in the near future; forbidding posting to refiled groups seems like a reasonable idea. -- "Read the OSI protocol specifications? | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology I can't even *lift* them!" | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry