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From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: can local groups be propagated to external site's local group?
Message-ID: <3034@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 16:15:35 GMT
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, Quebec
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Just a thought (don't know if it really happens), but suppose I post an
article to a local group (like general), but the article is of general
enough interest that it is also cross posted to a worldwide group (like
news.software.b), then the article gets sent out with a newsgroups field
of:

	Newsgroups: general,news.software.b

Normally world sites will not have the group general localized, so the
article propagates over the group news.software.b.  Suppose then it eventually
gets to an external site that by co-incidence has a localized group
general.... would the article then appear in their local group?

Or does news restrict posting into local groups to local sites only?

(I hope I dont get too much flack for this article, if it does what I think
it might do)
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David Lai (vedge!lai@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu || ...watmath!onfcanim!vedge!lai)