From: Kevin@nothere.etc
Don Aitken wrote;
>On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:57:48 +0000, 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,?
>>
>>where is the message stored while it is kept live?
>>
>>Can someone explain R FC850/ R FC1036 a little simpler?
>>I need to re-explain it to someone else:-(
>>
>Here's a simplified version. It stays as one message throughout. In
>principle a news server doesn't know anything about "groups", only
>messages. Each message has a set of headers, including a "Newsgroups:"
>header, which specifies the list of groups it "belongs" to.
I think it is in between this area that I an trying to find out
about.
How and where is the message at this point. is it in a single file
somewhere for each group folder, or a single message in folder.
Be it a very big one :-(
>When a
>news client asks for the messages in a particular group, it gets sent
>all the messages which have that group specified in the "Newsgroups:"
>header.
>There is a complication, because many news providers, in these days of
>increasing volume, find it necessary to split their news database over
>more than one server. One way of doing this is to split them by group;
>where this is done there may be more than one copy of the same
>message, one on each server which carries any of the groups specified.
That fits in perfectly with what My isp's are saying
although they are not new ISP systems they have been
going for the gut of 10 yrs.
As said in my reply to Jon B's post many Thanks and I am not messing
and apologise if I come across that way, I can be thick too:)
I'm just trying hard to understand this so that I can re-explain it,
Kevin
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