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In article <3DEC6A73.2090903@debian.org>,
Giacomo Catenazzi  <cate@debian.org> wrote:
>I read the LKML at news:fa.linux.kernel since4 years, without problems
>(no full mailbox box during vacations :-), and the headers are unchanged,
>so the private reply are allowed)

The big problem is when multiple gateways to news exist in multiple
hierarchies. News servers accept a certain message only once - and
the only thing that is looked at is the message-id.

So if your news server gets fa.linux.kernel and linux.kernel, half
of the articles will end up in the first group and half of the
articles in the second.

That's why it's not a good idea anymore to read linux-kernel etc
mailinglists through news, you'll miss a lot of articles. Unless
you do the gatewaying yourself and have enough of a clue to
prevent the above scenario.

Mike (reading this with 'trn' in the /local/ lists.linux.kernel group).
-- 
They all laughed when I said I wanted to build a joke-telling machine.
Well, I showed them! Nobody's laughing *now*! -- acesteves@clix.pt

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