Summary of 3BXXX info (long)

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Mon Jul 22 08:56:45 AEST 1985


> WHY WAS THIS POSTED TO MULTIPLE GROUPS!!!!
> GIVE THE NET A BREAK.

It wasn't posted to *any* groups.  "tycho" is, I believe, a No Such Agency
site on the ARPANET, and the original message and the summary were mailed to
the "info-unix" and "unix-wizards" mailing lists on the ARPANET.  Mail sent
to "info-unix" gets received by a pseudo-account at "brl-tgr"; mail for that
account gets delivered to a program which posts the mail message to
"net.unix".  Mail sent to "unix-wizards" gets posted to "net.unix-wizards".
The guy at "tycho" may not even know that it gets gatewayed.  Unfortunately,
the gatewaying software can't really do a comparison of every message mailed
to "info-unix" with every message mailed to "unix-wizards" to detect
duplicates and post only one copy to both groups (which, unless your news
software is brain-damaged, or your feed's software is, or your feed's feed's
software is, or... means you only will see it once).

	Guy Harris



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