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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Distribution field in postnews
Message-ID: <2568@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 00:11:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 26 00:11:59 1983
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Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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I think pyuxn!rlr's suggestion is a good one. Once we're already
answering the question (world,can,ont,tor,local?), we might as well
not have to specify the "net." in the newsgroup specification.

One concern I have relates to defining what newsgroups can cross
machine, state or country boundaries. For example, there is net.graphics
and at utcsrgv we have a local group "graf". (It could have been
called "graphics", but it wasn't.) Now, if someone posts to "graf"
and try to send the article across the whole net, inews has to step
in quickly and visibly to inform him that "graf" is a local group only.
And what if a neighbouring site creates a "graf" group? Who determines
whether posted articles can legitimately leave the machine?

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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