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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here"
Message-ID: <698@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 88 10:38:55 GMT
References: <2390@dasys1.UUCP> <1987Dec31.065249.24476@sq.uucp> <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
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In article <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> In article <693@brandx.rutgers.edu>, webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
> 
> > The only fix I can see is to refuse to accept postings from sites that
> > don't carry the full set of groups (thus emphasizing the different
> Suppose we have (leaf)-->(link)-->(backbone) and (link) decides without
> asking (leaf) not to carry some newsgroup, (leaf) isn't to be allowed to
> post anything to any newsgroup?  Save us from our "friends".

Leaf can post anything that link is willing to carry.  It is just that
``backbone'' shouldn't relay it any further since it was posted into
an eratz alternate group system that is trying to use the same name
space as the regular usenet group system.  E.g., their misc.misc is a
different group because they don't have a rec.arts.poems.  If leaf
want's to post into the ``real usenet'' then all it has to do is get a
feed (or convince link that it is causing more trouble than it is 
saving).

----- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)