Xref: utzoo news.admin:14041 news.software.b:7645 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!omni!bob From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) Newsgroups: ba.news,news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Just between us Message-ID: <6292@mondo.omni.com> Date: 2 May 91 06:41:02 GMT References: <1991Apr30.001057.4812@sat.com> <1991May01.182617.2687@sat.com> Followup-To: ba.news Distribution: na Organization: Interphase West, Mountain View, CA Lines: 22 Supersedes: <6291@mondo.omni.com> In article <1991May01.182617.2687@sat.com> lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) writes: >In article nico@Micrognosis.Los-Gatos.CA.US (Speaker-to-Workstations) writes: >=>I strongly suspect that the >=>ba distribution is even more widely available than ca. It appears that >=>everyone in the world thinks that they will be missing something if they don't >=>get the news from Mecca. >Actually it is a bug in the news software. B News confuses distribution with >hierarchy. First sentence is false, second sentence is true. If it were not for sites such as uunet passing "ba" all over the globe, the distribution/hierarchy ambiguity would not be a problem. All the "ba.all" groups are meant to propagate only within the "ba" distribution. The problem is one of human error, or perhaps of differing philosophies. -- Bob Weissman Internet: bob@omni.com UUCP: ...!{apple,decwrl,pyramid,sgi,uunet}!omni!bob