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From: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sys file question
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.011155.21077@ora.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 01:11:55 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rsalz@bbn.com's message of 4 Feb 91 21:46:52 GMT


   From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
   Date: 4 Feb 91 21:46:52 GMT

   If I were writing a news transport system, here's what I'd do:
           [...]
	   -Ignore the ME entry in a sys file EXCEPT for the Distributions
	    field.

Actually, the fact that the ME: entry *is* consulted when deciding
whether to accept or junk an article has saved us from such
net.avalanches such as the 150 psu.<stuff> newsgroups created by Biff.
Applying the distributions subfield would be useful to people who want
to enforce what distributions they recieve, but there doesn't seem to
be a crying need for it.

				AMBAR