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From: gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Is it possible to specify "local" distribution?
Message-ID: <868.25481012@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 27 Oct 89 08:21:38 GMT
References: <3362@pbs.uucp>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <3362@pbs.uucp>, 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.


The NEWS.SYS file should accept the distribution "local" in only the local
node's entry. Thus specifying a distribution pf "local" (using POST.HEADER) is
intended to be the way to do this.

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

Again this depends on you and your neighbours all agreeing to acceept a
distribution keyword which is accepted in common. I.e. "site", "org" or
something similar.

Geoff Huston