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From: bruce@claven.cambridge.ibm.com (Bruce Greer)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Question about NNTP configuration
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.144346.9015@claven.cambridge.ibm.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 14:43:46 GMT
Reply-To: bruce@claven.cambridge.ibm.com (Bruce Greer)
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Organization: IBM Technical Computing Systems, Cambridge, MA
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I have a question about the way an NNTP fed machine is supposed to operate.
We have one news machine that 10-15 people use.  It receives an NNTP feed.
While it took some time figuring out how to get the incoming batches
unpacked and distributed for reading, it took even longer for me to figure
out how to get articles that we post to be transmitted back to our upstream
feed.  We receive lots (I won't guess how many) of articles daily.
The way we're set up now, our machine turns around and offers to nntpxmit
all of the articles we receive back to the feed where we got them.
Could someone tell me if this is what's supposed to happen?  Ideally,
we should only offer to transmit back articles generated here.

Thanks for any help,

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