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From: gutierre@ranma.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: January 1991 BADGE Meeting Announcement
Message-ID: <1991May17.055552.4326@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 17 May 91 05:55:52 GMT
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Reply-To: gutierre@ranma.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Gutierrez)
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> > BADGE (Bay Area Amiga Developers' GroupE) will host its January 1991
> > meeting at 7:30 PM in the SLAC Main Auditorium, 2575 Sand Hill Road,
> 
> >Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]
> 
> >> I'm sure this is a swell meeting and all, but shouldn't you use a more
> >> limited distribution?  I'm in Tucson, AZ, and I saw another reply from

I think Thad has explained this in the past, but as a former customer
of Portal Communcations (ie: "cup.portal.com" where he posts from), you
cannot restrict distribution, since you don't have access to the article
header at all when you compose a post at Portal, unlike most of us who
use rn/rrn/xrn/*rn/emacs-news/etc...

Portal uses a front end on their Sun-3's to hide any sembelance of a unix
system, making it look exactly like a BBS system when you dial up to it.
You don't have any choice in this.

I think people should be offering to make the posting for Thad with proper
distribution access, or make an alias on their machine to to exactly
that.  Maybe this should also be in some FAQ???


   robert