Re: Definitions (Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff)

[Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> --On 3. august 2007 09:52 -0700 Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>     multiple injection: sending the same proto-article to multiple
>>     injecting agents.
>>
>>     reinjection: taking a netnews article, converting it back into a
>>     proto-article, and sending it to an injecting agent.
>>
>> By those definitions, he's not doing multiple injection because they're
>> mutually exclusive.  (Well, unless his conversion process recovers exactly
>> the same proto-article as he had originally, which one can do with care in
>> a local news environment that's under one's complete control, but which is
>> not horribly interesting in the general case.)

> I would call reinjection a subset of multiple injection.

That's the approach I was taking, but it means that there isn't a term we
can use to talk about the subset of multiple injection that's *not*
reinjection, the approach that we're encouraging.  Which was proving
challenging.

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Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>