From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 15:41:41 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) writes:
>> I stop accepting post in the old group, in which case my users can't
>> post and complain, or they post and I put it in the old group which
>> then never goes away, or they post and I have to rewrite it to the new
>> group in which case readers in the old group don't see and my users
>> complain.
> If you refuse to accept postings to oldgroup, then they will be forced
> to modify their postings manually. A bit draconian, and they will bitch
> like anything, but it will get the job done.
I should point out here that this problem could potentially be fixed by
standardizing group aliasing and a return code to POST that said that the
post was rejected because it was posted to an aliased group, allowing the
posting agent to itself modify the Newsgroups header appropriately and
retry, potentially configurably without human intervention by the poster.
May or may not be worth the bother.
> Anyway, I posted some concrete proposals a couple of days ago. Nobody
> has responded yet.
I'm still back at "I'd rather not include experimental protocols in a
standards-track document," and beyond that haven't had much time to think
about long-term future-of-news sorts of stuff lately.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>