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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: can local groups be propagated to external site's local group?
Message-ID: <3015@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 89 20:30:03 GMT
References: <3034@vedge.UUCP> <1620@papaya.bbn.com>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1620@papaya.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>In <3034@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) asks what happens if he
>posts to "general,news.software.b" and one of his feeds gets it, will
>it end up in their "general" newsgroup, too?
>
>Yup, ask the folks at UUNET who owns "ut.all"; University of Toronto,
>or University of Texas...

Nope.  rnews strips local groups (groups with no dots in their names)
before accepting an article.  So, in answer to David Lai, the feed
would only see the article in news.software.b.  However, as Rich Salz
suggests, this problem has risen between U. of Toronto and U. of Texas --
articles crossposted between ut.general and netwide groups at U. of Texas
have landed in ut.general at U. of Toronto.


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