hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) (08/02/85)
I was just thinking that one way to help insure that articles "make the rounds" is by assigning article numbers. This would only work in the current environment for moderated groups. Basically, the posting site would specify the message ID. The article would be saved under that message ID number on every system which is running "updated" software. Any lost messages could be quickly identified, and I suspect a mechanism to retransmit from upstream sites could easily be implemented (instead of sending the request to sites not in the Path:, ...). The checkgroups posting could be extended to include the latest article number. This would be useful for mod.sources, mod.map.whatever, and mod.std.all. Several of the moderators already post Volume/Issue numbers, but it is up to the users to catch any omissions. This mechanism would also greatly assist in the distribution of "mandatory" articles (like net etiquette stuff) in newsgroups. -- Hokey ..ihnp4!plus5!hokey 314-725-9492