Re: Propagation of bc.* newsgroups

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From: Dave Kirsch
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <4dv829$ddu@cynic.portal.ca>,
Curt Sampson <curt@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:
>
>The leakage may have been due to a cross-post, anyway. If I cross-post
>to bc.general and alt.test, this post will propogate to every site
>in the world that carries alt.test. Since bc.general remains in
>the Newsgroups:  header, this post will `re-appear' in any bc.general
>on any of those servers, unless they have set their hosts.nntp file
>(assuming they're running INN) not to post to those groups when
>the message comes from the particular site it came from.

Actually, I thought this was broken (or at least not implemented) in INN 1.4.
The crosspost will get through.  I believe INN 1.5 was supposed to fix this
by paying attention to the "don't post to these groups" line in hosts.nntp
in regards to crossposts.

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From: a00563@giant.mindlink.net (Dave Kirsch)
Subject: Re: Propagation of bc.* newsgroups
Date: 1996/01/23
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