From: jtbellj3p@presby.edu 
  
 In article , 
 Kevin   wrote: 
 > 
 >When a 'cross-posted' message is sent from my computer. 
 >(it is sent initially as one message to my ISP.) 
 >How is it then propagated / distributed /split (or not) and then 
 >picked up in each group etc.  on leaving the local ISP's server,? 
  
 In general, each server receives, stores, and transmits *one* copy of a 
 crossposted message.  On each server, that single copy is somehow "linked" 
 to each of the crossposted groups that that server carries.  On UNIX-based 
 servers, for example, each newsgroup may be represented as a file-system 
 directory (e.g. /usr/local/news/spool/articles/news/groups/questions/), 
 with crossposted messages "hardlinked" to the appropriate directories. 
 There are other ways of doing this, but this is the simplest and 
 traditional way. 
  
 -- 
 Jon Bell                      Presbyterian College 
 Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South Carolina USA 
  
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