From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 16:37:11 CDT
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) wrote:
> 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.
Moving it so that the Newsgroups line doesn't match the group will cause
followups to go to the old group. If you move at all you need to change
stuff and use the same cautions as any other REPOST, because that's the
closest existing model I can identify.
I'd rather not move at all, but doing it simply doesn't work in many
cases. A clear repost marked as such doesn't conflict and is
identifyable but the reader.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me