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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: articles that show up in strange places
Message-ID: <795@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 17:18:07 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.795
Posted: Thu Jan  5 17:18:07 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Jan-84 04:28:13 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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The behavior is intentional, it has to keep all the newsgroups on there
so that followups go to all of them.

However, when Solomon posted the article to net.news.b,general, it showed
up in general on some machines.  This is the misfeature of the method.

But it didn't show up in general on cbosgd.  Why?  Apparently because
the "sys" file on cbosgd does not have "all" in the cbosgd line, but rather
	cbosgd:net,mod,fa,bell,att,abbl,btl,cb,osg,to::
listing the groups that will be accepted.  Thus, it didn't get localized
in "general", but it did get stored with the Newsgroups line reading
"net.news.b,general", forwarded intact, and followups will go to both.

While renaming local newsgroups like "general" to "cbosgd.general"
seems like a good idea, a reasonable fix is probably to fix your sys file.

	Mark