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In article <Bz5pyw.CF4@unix.amherst.edu> I wrote:

>Shouldn't the posting
>mechanism post the article to the groups which *are* valid?  Should
>the x'ed groups even show up in the Newsgroups line when an article
>lands here?

I've gotten a lot of feedback on the second question, which I agree
was not well thought out.  It makes more sense to me not to rewrite
the headers, philosophically as well as technically.

However, I haven't heard much on the first question.  If inews is
handed a post with several groups on the Newsgroups line, some of
which have "x" (or "n", for that matter) in their active file entries,
why shouldn't inews simply post the message to the remaining groups
and ignore the invalid ones?  (After warning the user that some of the
specified newsgroups are disabled locally, of course.)  I can't think
of any situation in which I wouldn't want this to happen.

I'm new to news administration -- a fact which should probably come as
news to few of you -- so I apologize if this is a FAQ.

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