[net.news] About "permanent" postings.

david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (01/04/85)

Permanent postings are a good idea.  But how does it get done?

A problem mentioned was updating them upon change.  Simple, when sending
out the new posting send along with it a control message cancelling the 
old posting.  This has the added benefit of letting all the newsgroups
readers know that a policy has changed or something.

Causing problems with 2.10.2?  If we really want this feature then change
the algorithm.

	David Herron
	ukma!david

honey@down.FUN (code 101) (01/06/85)

change the algorithm, you say?  a popular idea, but surely you know
that between A news (the last known working version of netnews
software) (ok, i'm stretching the truth a bit) and the current version,
there have been several major changes.

in any case, what did you have in mind?
	peter