Xref: utzoo news.admin:15599 news.software.b:8489 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Articles rejected by C news at ukma Message-ID: <1991Jun28.001722.29036@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 00:17:22 GMT References: <1991Jun26.220203.17522@uunet.uu.net> <1991Jun26.230017.21259@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun27.221243.778@chinacat.unicom.com> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 24 In article <1991Jun27.221243.778@chinacat.unicom.com> chip@chinacat.unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) writes: >In article <1991Jun26.230017.21259@zoo.toronto.edu> > henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>Having another pseudogroup for discarded articles is an obvious >>possibility, although something has to be done to bound its size and be >>selective about what gets included. > >Why? The stuff that is getting chucked was localized by B news. Note >I'm not claiming that because B news did it, C news should. Instead, >I'm saying that we've been able to afford the disk space for these >messages in the past, and I think we still can. I'm very much in I believe you missed an essential point. These articles are INVALID. Therefore they should not be entered into the history database since that would prevent a VALID version of the same article. You might therefore receive a copy from each of your feeds. In the past you never had more than one copy. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940