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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Lets see what versions of news people are running
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Date: 13 Oct 89 16:22:48 GMT
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According to coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge):
>Yet another gripe about control messages: the granularity of control seems
>a little too low. If I send out a sendsys, I (almost without exception)
>mean to get just one particular machine.

There already is such a mechanism:

	$ mail usenet@machinename
	Subject: A request
	Please send my your news "sys" file.
	adTHANKSvance.
	.

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