lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) (03/24/89)
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) -- "What is a DJ if he can't scratch?" - Uncle Jamms Army The views expressed are those of the author, and not of Visual Edge, nor Usenet. David Lai (vedge!lai@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu || ...watmath!onfcanim!vedge!lai)
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (03/25/89)
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... /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (03/26/89)
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. -- -- Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck