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From: schmitz@scd.hp.com (John Schmitz)
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Subject: Re: sys file entries for CNEWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.003409.21974@scd.hp.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 00:34:09 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.194737.5337@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> In many areas of the net, the use of a Distribution header to limit
> distribution of an article in a netwide group simply doesn't work properly
> at all any more.  Am I the only one who considers this a serious trend that
> should be averted now?

I agree this is a serious problem and I know that some news systems
completely ignore distributions (no flames about that here, please).
But if distributions were only geographic (or bounded) in nature, it
would be easy to stop the propogation of unwanted distributions no
matter how the articles arrived.  Now, however, it is impossible to tell
what is and isn't a valid distribution, so you are forced to pass
everything.

Just my two cents, not hp's.

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