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Subject: Re: comp.os.minix split up
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Date: 13 Apr 91 17:25:28 GMT
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Jess Anderson:
>>Peter da Silva wrote:
>>Alternate suggestion: crossposting all sources to alt.sources.
>
>Not so good, I think; alt* distribution is considerably less
>reliable in many places around the net.  I'm basically not for
>the split in the first place, but I'd rather all things related
>to Minix continued to appear in the comp.os* hierarchy.

	I have my own problems with this, but that isn't one of them.  When
an article is crossposted to two different groups, it will be sent to any
machine which receives either one of the groups.  The result is that a
crossposted article to comp.os.minix and alt.sources will show up in both
groups on a machine that has directories for both groups and in only
comp.os.minix if it only has that directory.  Many sites are set up with all
of the group directories (even the ones that they don't receive) and in that
case, the minix articles would be the only articles in alt.sources that
people at those sites would ever see.  Crossposting is implemented as
multiple links to the same file and takes up essentially no more disk space
then an article posted to one group.  The result of this would be that MInix
alt.sources postings would be "piggybacking" on the distribution of
comp.os.minix.

				Bill Bogstad