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From: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: restricting cross postings
Message-ID: <431@othervax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 10:21:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 10:21:58 1985
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Reply-To: ray@othervax.UUCP (Raymond D. Dunn)
Organization: Philips Information Systems - St. Laurent  P.Q., Canada
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Keywords: cross-posting indirect link
Summary: Simple solution to cross-posting problem



Assuming that the main problem with cross posting is disk space & xmission
time/costs and not the fact that we have to wade through the same article
over and over as we readnews, the solution is SIMPLE (in concept):

Introduce one level of indirection in the way news files are held - the
article is stored only in the first newsgroup posted to, and only a reference
to it stored in the other categories - this should be linked through by
readnews/rn etc. transparently to the user.

These references need not even be xmitted, as they can be generated
as news is received by a site.  Thus cross-posting no longer has any
net costs associated with it.

Lets get into the code and do it!

(By the way - who/what are these gods who feel able to declare that
 newsgroup x and y is now dead and that they are now going to moderate
 newsgroup z??   Not having had the pleasure (i.e. time) to peruse the
 net for some months, I missed the discussion/setting-up of moderated
 groups - if someone could mail me some background info on this I would
 appreciate it)

Ray Dunn.  ..philabs!micomvax!othervax
(only an infrequent reader of the net so excuse if the whole point has
 been missed)