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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: should missing articles get reposted? moderated articles get numbered?
Message-ID: <2127@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 20:14:23 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.2127
Posted: Mon Nov  2 20:14:23 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 04:35:00 EST
References: <10340@felix.UUCP> <6648@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: post it from a site that never got it
Xref: lsuc news.admin:1088 comp.sys.mac:7498

In article <6648@ut-ngp.UUCP> kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP writes:
>
>Is it possible to repost such an article without it getting propagated to
>all the sites that have seen it already?  how?

Well, if there's a particular chunk of the net which didn't get
it, and you have any way of identifying that chunk (e.g., from the
flood of complaining mail messages), then you can mail the article,
complete with Message-ID: header, to a site in that corner of the
net and have it fed to rnews there.  Then it will propagate around
the sites in that area until it hits the sites which already have it.

uunet is probably well-enough connected that it could set up an
automated way of achieving this, if Rick is interested. A user
on a site connected to uunet could request an article from a moderated
group, based on article and issue number, and uunet would simply
uux it to requesting-site!rnews.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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