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From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler)
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Subject: Re: parallel sys file entries in C News
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.022529.29818@silvlis.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 02:25:29 GMT
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In article <1990Aug28.172106.20512@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>On an unrelated topic, something we should perhaps address in documentation
>is that there seems to be a popular myth that "!local" in the distribution
>subfield has some kind of magic effect.  It doesn't.  Unless your local
>articles actually contain "Distribution: local" lines, "!local" is quite
>meaningless.

Well for me it had the effect of preventing rebroadcast of spaf's
checkgroups, which come with "Distribution: local". With a distribution of
"all" they get rebroadcast, however with "all,!local" they do not. I agree
it is not magic. It just works.

>-- 
>TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

jim
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