Re: "general" is a bad name for a newsgroup

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From: Felix Lee
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 04:09

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> If you have a local newsgroup called "general", you will sometimes find
> articles from other sites in that newsgroup.

This is the "newsgroup splicing" problem, which I've been thinking
about, but do not have a working solution yet.

Either: 1. all newsgroup names must be globally unique;
    or: 2a. sites can carry "different" groups with the same name.

A related proposition:
        2b. sites can carry the "same" group under different names.

Both 2b and 2a are necessary to support transparent newsgroup
renaming.  Implementing this requires somewhat different news
protocols.
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