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From: machman@milton.u.washington.edu (the machman)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.misc,comp.edu,uw.general,ut.general
Subject: Re: ambiguous newsgroups
Message-ID: <1991May6.070840.4331@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 07:08:40 GMT
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hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes:

>> I can see how this might confuse some mathematicians, but uw.general is a
>> University of Warwick general newsgroup. Not a maths forum in disguise.

>Well, well, and I thought only University of Toronto had this problem.
>ut.* is the structure of local University of Toronto newsgroups, as well as
>the University of Texas. Sometimes unwanted Texas postings show up on our
>system. It nows seems that uw.* (Waterloo and Warwick U.K.) has the same
>problem. 

probably moreso, as the Universities of Wisconsin and Washington are also
included.

>It's time someone gave the Internet some artificial intelligence.

perhaps all that is necessary is some real, human intelligence in the posters 
to restrict the distribution of their posts to a geographical region in which 
such ambiguity is avoided.