? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Adam Back wrote:
[detect multi-post]
That is cancel all but one groups worth of articles, and then modify the Newsgroups line to cross-post to all the groups the article was originally posted to.
No that is worce, it would be forgery of the orginal post. In addtion it would violate the usenet requirement to avoid modifing the post.
In my opinion, the hnorable way to deal with multi-posts is to detect them automatically and to ignore them. A NoCeM 'bot like the one run by the Venerable CancelMoose is a good thing. A compression scheme where many copies of the same text would be transmitted only once even if they're posted once would be an excellent thing (given that such traffic is a very substantial portion of a full uncensored feed), but it's not crucial. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps