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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: checkgroups
Message-ID: <FA+QW*@rpi.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 06:14:54 GMT
References: <106@tfsg.UUCP>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Lines: 31

Bleah.  This appeared in control here today:

> Path: rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!tfsg!otts
> From: otts@tfsg.UUCP (otts)
> Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl,control
> Subject: checkgroups
> Message-ID: <106@tfsg.UUCP>
> Date: 6 Dec 89 01:14:26 GMT
> Control: checkgroups
> Followup-To: news.admin.ctl
> Organization: TRW Inc., Chantilly, VA
> Lines: 1035
> Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu
> Distriubtion: local

_PLEASE_ do not pass Distribution: local postings.  Most of us don't
care that you happen to want alt.sex.bestiality or don't think
soc.culture.asean is valid.  If you want to newgroup
alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork it shouldn't appear on a third (VERY
rough guess; I have no real idea how widespread the problem is) of the
sites of USENET.

Clearly, at least one distribution class is needed to keep postings
limited to a single site, whether they be control messages, or burst
digests, or locally gatewayed mailing lists or whatever.  It might as
well be "local" so that everyone can clearly put in their sys files
not to pass it on, even if they happen to get an errant one fed to them.

Dave
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