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1 total messages Started by Nigel Allen Wed, 04 Nov 1992 06:31
"general" is a bad newsgroup name
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Author: Nigel Allen
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 06:31
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Any site that has a local newsgroup named "general" will sometimes find
posts from other sites there. The posts from other sites are normally
cross-posted to general and to a more widely-distributed group. (In fact,
if you check general on your site, you may find some confused messages
from people wondering where the messages from other sites came from, and
some other messages dealing with the U.S. presidential election.)

The only reliable solution to this is to use a name other than "general"
for your local general newsgroup. If the name of your site is enver,
then it would seem reasonable to call your local general newsgroup
enver.general. That way, you won't get messages from othe sites there, and
if your users accidentally cross-post something to your local newsgroup
and to a widely-distributed one, it won't end up in someone else's general
newsgroup.
 
(I chose enver as a ficticious site name because as far as I know nobody 
is using that name.)
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