Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: High Volume Calls For New Approach
Keywords: Signatures;long quotes
Message-ID: <766@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 19:35:25 GMT
References: <26469@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <952@dlhpedg.co.uk> <2145@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The only problem I would see with this is some sites have very short expire 
>times, which would make this feature useless.

The other problem is that the referencing article can (and, at times,
does) arrive before the referenced article (assuming the referenced
article arrives at all).  Netnews articles are datagrams.