From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 04:31:49 CDT
In <86saW7VocDB@3247.org> list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
>They would instead read the posting in the new group, where it has
>been moved to, send a followup there and the server corrects the
>newsreader if it does use the old name for the Newsgroup (and/or
>Followup-To) header.
If by "server" you mean "injector", then maybe so, although that has not
been an official part of the proposal so far. It would be a hard one to
implement, though. You observe that an article is posted to a group which
is aliased according to your active file. You have to decide whether to
change its Newsgroups line accordingly. But was it aliased because of some
local policy for amalgamating newsgroups (in which case you don't want to
change it) or was it aliased because it had been 'mvgrouped' (in which
case you do)? So the server would need to keep track of both these
possibilities, which sounds like yet another flag in the active file.
So I think moving existing threads to the new group is going to have to be
left to the netcops on the group itself. Which should be OK if there is a
reasonably long inter-regnum (e.g. 30 days).
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