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Re: changing USENET to suit one's system

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1989 00:02
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In article <1989Nov15.172022.511@utzoo.uucp> I wrote:
>If you aren't concerned about outbound news, you can use C News's "="
>feature to remap groups locally, but that mapping is one-way and will
>be visible to anyone you feed.

Actually, Geoff points out that the on-disk articles are unaltered ("="
affects where they are put but not their content) and could be sent to
other sites without making the mapping visible to them.  I'd be inclined
to say "your warranty is void", but it ought to work.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry
References: <1989Nov14.041714.4650@telly.on.ca> <1989Nov15.172022.511@utzoo.uucp>

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Newsgroups: pubnet.sysops,can.usrgroup
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: changing USENET to suit one's system
Message-ID: <1989Nov16.000215.1611@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov14.041714.4650@telly.on.ca> <1989Nov15.172022.511@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 89 00:02:15 GMT