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From: pwd@pid.UUCP (Philip W. Dalrymple)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.notes
Subject: Re: Prohibition of postings to multiple groups - a bad idea
Message-ID: <196@pid.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 08:16:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: pid.196
Posted: Sat Oct  5 08:16:19 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 03:20:35 EDT
References: <10381@ucbvax.ARPA> <3274@nsc.UUCP> <698@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <3166@nsc.UUCP> <126@sdencore.UUCP> <312@aoa.UUCP>
Reply-To: pwd@pid.UUCP (Philip W. Dalrymple)
Organization: P & I Design, Inc. Atlanta
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Xref: watmath net.news:4025 net.news.notes:33
Summary: 

In article <312@aoa.UUCP> mbr@aoa.UUCP (Mark Rosenthal) writes:
>In article <126@sdencore.UUCP>, which was posted to both net.news and
>net.news.notes mark@sdencore.UUCP (Mark DiVecchio) writes:
>>
>> One simple step, which has to have been suggested before, is prohibit
>> posting the same message to multiple newsgroups.
>
>I've seen this suggested before, but I've never understood how people think
>it is going to help the situation.  It would simply encourage posters who

I think that this comes from the notes sites which have a real problem with
multiple newsgroups.  Would it be posible for the people who maintain the
notes system to allow multiple newsgroups is there system.  

Note: pid runs a news system and I have never seen Notes so I do not
know what I am talking about.



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