Newsgroups: news.misc
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A new idea for USENET?
Message-ID: <1990Feb6.172032.15898@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5633@barn.COM> <1990Feb5.224637.18524@utzoo.uucp> <7302@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 90 17:20:32 GMT

In article <7302@yunexus.UUCP> davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>[p.s. Henry: how about a two-way mapping in the transport agent
>	to allow user-interface issues to not affect transport (:-))

See the "=" form of the fourth field of the active file in C News! :-)
This is a purely local mapping that does not affect transport but does
change what the user interface sees.
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