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From: drdan@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Dan Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.misc,comp.edu,uw.general,ut.general
Subject: Re: ambiguous newsgroups
Message-ID: <1991May8.135949.22296@src.honeywell.com>
Date: 8 May 91 13:59:49 GMT
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In article <1991May6.070840.4331@milton.u.washington.edu> machman@milton.u.washington.edu (the machman) writes:
>hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes:
>...
>>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
>  ...
>>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.

It's not that simple. We started getting cross traffic on
"hi.general" (Honeywell, Inc.) in Minnesota because someone crossposted to
"hi.general" (Hawaii) and "rec.arts.star-trek". (We have since renamed
our hierarchy to "honeywell.*".)

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