Aduke.1923
net.general
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!trt
Thu Mar 25 09:54:22 1982
Re: ihuxn.102: One Newsgroup Per Article!
Flame!! I absolutely refuse to tolerate this!!
"Users on a given system may individually subscribe and submit articles
to arbitrary sets of newsgroups." [From original Usenet paper]

There is no excuse for B news to mis-handle
this basic feature of news which is used routinely here
to submit to subsets of "grads,faculty,systems,graphics,vlsi,...".
Don't tell me a "faculty,vlsi" article should really go to "general"!

There are two ways a reader sees an article twice:
 1) The sender submits it twice, annoying both A and B news users.
The sender should instead submit it once, to both newsgroups.
 2) The sender submits it to two newsgroups, annoying B news users.
He did the right thing!  This is an old bug in B news,
which will presumably be fixed in the next release.
       Tom Truscott (duke!trt)

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