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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