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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Re: Warning: April Fools Time again (forged messages on the loose!)
Message-ID: <47838@sun.uucp>
Date: 31 Mar 88 23:18:25 GMT
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>This "bug" prevents your transmitting the news items you receive back
>to your newsfeed. 
>And maybe them sending it back to you, and you to them ......

It prevents transmiting it back, but the loop prevention is the reason
why we have the history file. It comes back, it's recognized as a duplicate,
it dies.

This "bug" also prevents a message published in the name of someone
on a given site (a common occurance for moderated groups) from ever
being posted on the machine in question or any site downstream of them.

On balance, this 'feature' is more of a pain than a convenience. 

>Sounds like a good reason to register one's sitename. If newsfeeds were
>routed only to registered sites, the problem wouldn't occur.

Nice idea. Wishful thinking, but nice idea. Since registering is (and always
will be) voluntary, registering will never keep this from happening, since
both sides of a dispute need to register for the conflict to be resolved.
What if I decide to (or don't know I'm supposed to) not register. How do you
find out about me?