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From: geoff@utcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: cross-posting restrictions lifted
Message-ID: <1986Sep10.174123.29120@utcs.uucp>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 17:41:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcs.1986Sep10.174123.29120
Posted: Wed Sep 10 17:41:23 1986
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Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services, general purpose UNIX
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In August, I wrote approximately:
> utcs is running C news, which has implemented some of the policy in B
> 2.11 news.  One notable feature is that, in order to prevent
> cross-postings such as (in the brave new world) "comp.unix.wizards,
> rec.auto" ... B 2.11 and C news insist that all newsgroups in the
> Newsgroups: line must be in the same "newsgroup class" (i.e. must all
> start with the same word).  This means that cross-postings such as
> ont.general,tor.general will be quietly dropped ...

Since then the people who originally proposed this policy have reversed
themselves and do not plan to implement it in B 2.11, so I have
correspondingly removed it from C news (at least on utcs; not all C news
sites have this latest version) and am now awaiting the release of B
2.11 to see what the policies du jour *really* are.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utcs!geoff, geoff@cs.toronto.cdn