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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
Message-ID: <7149@e.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 16:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 16:02:00 1987
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In article <8430@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> The surprise was not that the dance was advertized, but that it was at
>> the University of Wisconsin.  It seems that the dance was cross posted
>> to soc.motss and uw.general...
>U of Toronto occasionally sees U of Texas news too.  Geoff and I are thinking
>about a solution for this for C news; it's not simple.

Yes Henry ... please do come up with a solution.  We've recently gotten
a small spate of messages from a person in England crossposting things
between something called "uk.general" and other newsgroups.  We've got
a "uk.general" and some other uk.whatevers where uk stands for U of Kentucky.
They've got a uk.general (I suppose) where uk stands for United Kingdom.

The problem is general enough and we're seeing enough postings about it,
that obviously a solution needs to be found.

With the current set of headers and current sys file and active file, I
can't see any solution other than removing newsgroups which aren't known.
(and moving the article into junk if it there aren't any newsgroups
after that).  But that has repercussions where you have an article
originating at one site cross-posted to newsgroups known to A and C
but some are not known by B.  If the article happens to pass through 
B to C before it does A to C, then the one on C will not appear in
all the newsgroups it's supposed to appear in.  (unless you keep the
newsgroup name in the Newsgroups: line, BUT we have our current problem
if we do that ...)

sigh
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