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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: cross-posting restrictions
Message-ID: <1315@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 23:27:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1315
Posted: Mon Aug 18 23:27:32 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Aug-86 00:03:45 EDT
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: why?


Perhaps ont.general isn't the right place to continue this discussion,
but prohibiting cross-topgroup cross-postings sounds like an inane
and regressive step to me. I can think of many useful cases for
such postings, and I have seen many such postings (as well as
having posted several myself). I agree there is a danger with
present implementations of 2.10.2 news in that a second newsgroup
can be stripped from an article which then makes its way back to
a site which supports the deleted group. But this, to me, suggests
that the fix is to allow locally-nonexistent groups to exist on
a Newsgroups line, filtering them out for followups only.

Why is 2.11 initiating this? And why is C news following?
(The second question is easier to answer, I suppose.)
Who is in charge of setting the standards for 2.11?

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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