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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: Re: More Backbone Newsgroup Cuts
Message-ID: <133@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 14:33:45 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.133
Posted: Tue Feb  4 14:33:45 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Feb-86 05:02:29 EST
References: <1936@hao.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
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Summary: Careful about removing groups from active
Cc: woods@hao.UUCP

In article <1936@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>...
>that very few people actually read any of those groups and even those that do
>support cutting them to save the net in Colorado. Therefore, the cuts will
>be made here. The affected groups are net.abortion, net.religion, 
>net.philosophy and net.politics (and their subgroups). The neighboring site
>admins will be getting mail requesting them to stop sending us those groups.
>On Thursday, Feb. 6, the articles in those groups will be purged from our
>disks and the lines for them removed from the active file. 

I support your decision to cut high-volume groups.  But I see a big problem
with removing the lines from your active file, since you're a backbone. Your
system will then strip the names off of cross-posted messages, but they will
still have the same message-id.  So if someone posts an article on Godel's
Theorem to both net.philosophy and net.math, some parts of the net that get
both lists will see it only in net.math, if the message has passed through
hao. Others will see it in both groups.

How about leaving the lines in active, and using the sys file to reject unwanted
groups?  That is, say

hao:net,mod,...,!net.religion,!net.abortion,!net.philosophy,!net.politics

Any comments from more knowledgeable net-wizards?
-- 
- Joe Buck
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