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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to specify "local" distribution?
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Date: 16 Oct 89 13:35:40 GMT
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>|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.
     
You can automate this somewhat - the following is
	NEWS_MANAGER:NEWS_POST.DEFAULTS
     
which contains the necessary notes to set it up
     
Geoff Huston
     
# NEWS_MANAGER:NEWS_POST.DEFAULTS
#
# This file is used to supply default values for headers for local postings.
# The format of the file is:
#
#  newsgroup name - starting in column 1
#   the name may be either an exact name, a name with wildcard character (*)
#   or the name "default" (which matches all newsgroups).
#   Lists of newsgroup names are NOT supported - if you wish to define
#   two or more newsgroups with the same values then use wildcards if the
#   newsgroup names are related, or use separate entries for each newsgroup
#
#  The lines following a newsgroup must start with a space or a tab in col 1
#   and they refer to headers for that newsgroup.
#
# NEWS will search for the first successful match for a newsgroup, then apply
# the headers as given. Therefore "default", if used, must be at the end of
# the file.
#
# NEWS V5.7 supports only two default headers:
#  Distribution:
#  Followup-To:
# e.g.:
aus.general
    Followup-To: aus.followup
    Distribution: aus
aus.wanted
    Followup-To: aus.followup
    Distribution: aus
test
    Distribution: local