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From: crp@stcvax.UUCP (Charlie Price)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: articles that show up in strange places
Message-ID: <221@stcvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 12:27:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  6 12:27:24 1984
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>  Here is a proposal: have netnews "invisibly" prefix all local groups
>  with the machine name.

One problem that we might have with this is that we have
our development spread across a couple machines and they share all
of the local newsgroups like "general".  The wrong implementation
of an "invisible" prefix would make that difficult or impossible.
If done "right" for us, this would involve yet another configuration
parameter.

Do other sites have multiple distinct machines that are "local" to each other?

A second problem that some sites might have would be experienced by a
machine that I saw in net.news.newsite just today: onyx.
The natural company distribution class would also be "onyx" and they
would have a problem.  Future site names could avoid this problem,
of course, but who knows how many existing sites would be affected.

I think the original proposed solution, adjusting the newsgroups
based on the sys file line (or whatever), makes more sense and is a more
correct implementation of what the intent of such a multiple posting
was done with.  This works for followups to the more global group.

This doesn't address the problem of posting to, say, "net.wanted" and
"wanted" and having followups in "wanted" also followup to "net.wanted".
I don't think it is a good idea to post to a local and more global
newsgroup at the same time anyway.  Local groups are local for a
reason and it is hard to see what articles they would reasonably share.
I don't know that complicating the followup mechanism, by following
up only to the local group in this case, is really the answer, either.
-- 
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