Acbosgd.114
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utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Sun Oct  4 21:24:55 1981
arpanet forgeries
smb makes two good points.  One of the problems he brings up (being
able to easily recognise the newsgroup) goes away in version B since
newsgroups all come out sorted anyway.  But even version A always
specifies the newsgroup, so I really don't understand the problem.

The second comment is much more serious.  Having netnews fail to send
something on because it thinks that site has already seen it is clearly]
the wrong thing to do, but that's a very useful optimization most of the
time.  One possible solution is for arpanet mailing lists to have two
versions of the list - one with the berkeley "post" in it and one without.
(Presumably one would reference the other to avoid duplication of
list maintenence.)  For example, assuming unix-wizards@sri-unix contains
       sjk@sri-unix,lauren@ucla-security,post-unix-wizards@berkeley
it could be changed to:
       unix-wizards: uwiz-people,post-unix-wizards@berkeley
       uwiz-people: sjk@sri-unix,lauren@ucla-security
that way, people sending contributions wouldn't see a change, but
usenet could send articles on to uwiz-people@sri-unix.  the post-unix-wizards
alias would have to be gimmicked to believe that the mail came via
sri-unix - for example, mail from lauren@ucla-security would have to
turn into lauren@ucla-security@sri-unix to keep it from getting forwarded
back.  (Will sri-unix (or warf or whatever) handle this?)  I am not
particularly comfortable with this scheme, and welcome all comments.
What other lists besides unix-wizards are not digestified and thus
would be affected?
       Mark

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