Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!nuchat!elg
From: elg@nuchat.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: No longer about April Fools (the Path: header)
Message-ID: <904@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 06:18:51 GMT
References: <2047@epimass.EPI.COM>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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From article <2047@epimass.EPI.COM>, by jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck):
$ In article <47838@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
$>>This "bug" prevents your transmitting the news items you receive back
$>>to your newsfeed. 
$>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.
$ Chuq is right on this one.  Message-IDs and the history file are
$ sufficient to prevent loops.  They aren't sufficient to prevent
$ wasted transmissions of articles; getting rid of Path: will

Hate to break in to a conversation, but isn't this exactly what
"IHAVE"/"SENDME" messages are supposed to avoid? That is, the sender
say "I have these messages" and the reciever saying "OK, send me
messages x,y,z"?

I don't know if news software has reached that level of sophistication
yet, but it IS possible.  If everybody runs late-model
news software, that is.


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