Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: C news and bogus distributions (e.g. Dist: comp) Message-ID: <1990Oct11.210812.19392@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 21:08:12 GMT In article pst@ack.Stanford.EDU (Paul Traina) writes: >For a while, I was doing negative distribtions along the lines of: > >kink.com:alt.sex.bondage/all,!local,!csd,!sdc,!su,!ba:l: > >But this is bogus (and if you think about it, really the wrong way to do >it). Actually, we tend to think that negative distributions end up being the simplest approach. However, if you've got a lot of local distributions and a lot of connections that cross distribution boundaries, that does make life complicated. We've generally got a low opinion of people who generate (or whose software generates) bogus distributions, and can't get too excited about maximizing propagation of such articles. >(p.s. Would people consider it anti-social if we started re-writing headers > so the message actually gets a legitimate distribution?) Any header rewriting is a sin. However, this strikes me as a relatively minor one, provided you're sure you know what the legitimate distributions are. -- "...the i860 is a wonderful source | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology of thesis topics." --Preston Briggs | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry