Re: Definitions (Re: #1416 Injection-Date: proposed diff)
Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email protected]> writes: > --On 3. august 2007 09:52 -0700 Russ Allbery <[email protected]> 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. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>