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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Groups in active file (was Re: more interim results)
Message-ID: <2033@hao.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 21:25:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 21:25:10 1986
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> Some sites do not get all
> groups, and they incorrectly have the unsubscribed groups still present in
> their active files.

  I have a question about this. When I recently dropped the 'soapbox'
groups from our machine, several people complained that I should NOT
remove them from our active file, because then that group name would
be stripped from all articles passing through us. Since we are a backbone
site feeding two other backbones that at the time DID get those groups,
I didn't want to stop cross-postings to multiple groups, some of which
we did and some of which we didn't get, from appearing in some of the groups 
to which they were originally posted on sites which DO receive those
groups. Is this true or not? CAN I remove the dead (at hao) groups
from the active file without harming other sites or not?

--Greg
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