From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 05:50:14 CDT
In <200108062310.TAA26698@darkstar.prodigy.com> davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) writes:
>I have misgivings about moving a post. In the past I did make a copy of
>posts, with a new message-ID, labeled as a repost, with a header line
>called something like X-Originally-Post-To or some such. I did it just
>once, not as an ongoing thing, and I stopped accepting new posts in the
>old group.
I think the only safe way of moving an article is to place it in the
newgroup exactly as-is. At least, that is what the newsreaders should see.
What the server does internally for its own convenience it its own affair.
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