Aunc.862 net.news,NET.news utzoo!duke!unc!smb Tue Jun 2 09:06:05 1981 More on wasted transmissions Several people have suggested tagging each message with a site and serial number, to identify duplicates. The current news system already does that; the problem is determining before transmission starts whether or not it has already been received. We wish to strict to vanilla uucp protocols, which means that "news" can't get control before an article is sent. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem without changing uucp? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.