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Re: to.* newsgroups (was: draft-allbery-usefor-usepro-00 errata)

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> Tue, 02 January 2007 05:14 UTC

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In <87fyayijf8.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>I'm convinced.  I now have:

>   These control messages are normally sent as point-to-point articles
>   between two sites and not then sent on to other sites.  Newsgroups
>   beginning with "to." are reserved for such point-to-point
>   communications and are formed by prepending "to." to a <relayer-name>
>   to form a <newsgroup-name>.  Articles with such a group in their
>   Newsgroups header fields SHOULD NOT be sent to any news server other
>   than the one identified by <relayer-name>.

Fine!

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