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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: RFD?: alt.drugs.lsd
- Message-ID: <Bxxs1r.7nv@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff & Nonsense Division
- References: <1992Nov18.181219.13422@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov18.213538.1807@mtu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:01:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.213538.1807@mtu.edu> kfseefel@mtu.edu (KURT F. SEEFELDT) writes:
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- >The energy expended to form the new newsgroup would only
- >increase the amount of net traffic by sending duplicate
- >articles.
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- This is false. Sites decide whether or not to accept articles based
- only on their Message-IDs. The number of newsgroups to which an
- article is posted has no bearing on whether or not it gets passed to
- another host.
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