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In article <1993Jan03.061859.8419@catfish.az05.bull.com>,
pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble) wrote:
> 
> In article <1013@rc1.vub.ac.be> eluyten@rc1.vub.ac.be (Eric Luyten) writes:
> >In article <1992Dec31.091149.7100@catfish.az05.bull.com>, pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble) writes:
> >|> Pardon a news newbie asking a dumb question...
> >|> 
> >|> What's a cascade?
> >Do you want to know how they're made ?
> >
> Actually, yes. I understand that, whatever they are, they are undesirable so I
> have no intention of starting one. However, I might well find my self managing
> a usenet node in the near future, so I do want to know how to recognize one
> and what to do about it. Is a .450 Nitro Express adequate?
> 
>     ++PLS

A cascade is when a bunch of joiks post repeated follow-up
articles to a thread.  On most newsreaders you will only
see the header for the first article in a thread until you
open it up.  To remove long cascades you can tell your
news software to purge threads over a certain length.

Trouble is, software cannot easily determine whether there
are many articles in a thread because it's a hot topic or
because several joiks are flaming one another...

Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator; the lab
 net pretends to work!"

matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu