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From: hoffman@hdsvx1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cross-posting restrictions
Message-ID: <461@hdsvx1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 08:27:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 27 08:27:28 1986
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Why don't we write some new software for the net which would allow
"linked" cross-posting?  That is, cross-post only once, but only one
copy of the posting goes across, accompanied by pointers for the
cross-posted groups.  An important requirement of such a system would
be the ability to mark something read *once and for all* -- if I read
it in net.legal, I don't even want to see it when I get to net.politics.
I think that such a system would eliminate all objections to cross-posting
except for the one that cross-posting encourages people to post opinions
to inappropriate groups.  But people will do that no matter what we do.
-- 
 Richard Hoffman                | "Oh life is a wonderful cycle of song,
 Schlumberger Well Services     |     A medley of extemporanea.
 hoffman%hdsvx1@slb-doll.csnet  | And Love is a thing that can never go wrong
 PO Box 2175, Houston, TX 77252 | ... And I am Marie of Roumania." --D. PARKER