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In <BxKDLv.MEA@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

| Believe me, the implementors have thought about this, at length.  Nobody
| has yet found a workable solution.

Seems to me there are just two solutions - either simply put up with the
way things work now, and accept that postings from anywhere can appear
in our cs.general and general (etc) newsgroups.

Or, simply outlaw crossposting between "local" and non-local groups,
where "outlaw" means simply refuse to accept an article from an
external link that is cross posted to a local newsgroup (if it later
appears from an internal link, that's fine), and never transmit
articles cross-posted to local groups to external links, if that's
what the poster wants, they'll need to post twice instead of cross
posting.

In theory, you'd need a hierarchy of localness (local to this host,
local to this department, organisation, region, ...) and similar
notations on the links.  In practice just "local" and "external"
would probably do, its only usually the "very local" groups that
cause problems.

Its doable, though I'm not sure its really worth it (I mean, what is
"general" for if not for debates between supporters of Bush & Clinton...)

kre