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In article <4o1k8t$i6g@junior.wariat.org>,
catfood@junior.wariat.org (Mark W. Schumann) wrote:
>Well, yeah, but the point is that /your/ host got one copy of the
>article and turned it into <n> copies, and it is within your power
>to make it stop doing that.  It doesn't become "spam" until you make
>it so.  The massively crossposted article is just "velveeta" until
>then, and velveeta is a lot easier to manage.

Hmmmm, well I thought we were talking about managing it, just that
we differ in the approach.

>BTW, check your facts on UUPC.  I used that here for /years/ and am
>quite certain that UUPC hands one and only one copy of a crossposted
>article to the news spool, and it is SNEWS's unbatcher (if you're
>using that) that makes the <n> copies.

Nope, not using SNEWS.  Not even sure I know how :)  However, I checked 
the news spool and found a crossposted article in comp.os.os2.misc with:

Xref: mome comp.os.os2.misc:48273 comp.os.os2.advocacy:68515

So, went to the spool of c.o.o.a, pulled up article 68515.  Sure enough,
the entire article is on the hard drive twice, not some pointer to the
other.

  I wanted to do what you
>seem to be considering now, which is making an SNEWS database that
>implements newsgroups as a bag of pointers into that big database,
>but I found it a lot easier and cooler to just start running Linux.  :-)

I've heard rumors that Linux now supports the AHA-2742, which it did not
when I was initially interested in it (something about Adaptec being
overly zealous about trade secrets or something).  However, it would be
a lot more costly, esp. in terms of time, to switch now.  Now, if I could
afford another computer for news and mail only ... :)

John
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