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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Is it possible to specify "local" distribution?
Message-ID: <2138@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 20:09:14 GMT
References: <3362@pbs.uucp>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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SDROPPERS@pbs.uucp (Seton R. Droppers) writes:

|Is it possible, via the distribution header line, to limit news to a local site
|(say my site, for example?  I know that I can set up a localy defined
|newsgroups and I assume that does not get sent outside of my site, no matter
|what (is that true?), what I want to do is limit distribution of a particular
|message in a network distributed newsgroup (control, just for kicks) to my site
|only.

   Um, unless I'm missing something, I'd say you already have the answer -
just use the "local" distribution in your post by using POST/HEADER, and
make sure in your NEWS.SYS file that "local" isn't listed in the acceptable
distributions for sending to any other nodes.  Thus, the post will remain
local because noone gets the "local" distribution sent to them.

|The second part of the question, I suppose, is is it possible to send control
|messages (version, sendsys) to my neighbors only?

   Sure!  Same thing - create your own distribution name, say "foo", and then
make sure that each node passes "foo" to its neighbors, but NOT to your out-
side UUCP feed(s).

-- 
Tim Russell   Univ. Of Nebr. at Omaha   russell@{zeus.unl.edu | unoma1.bitnet}
"I'm against any law that I wouldn't break if I could get away with it."
                                             -- A. Whitney Brown, SNL