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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: usa.all? (etc)
Message-ID: <5519@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 13:01:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 13:01:01 1983
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Distributions would be fine if people actually used them, but many don't.
Maybe a problem is that people don't even realise that they can target an item
in net.general only to the USA, for instance. It's the sort of information
you only pick up after reading the news for some time.

If things don't get better, and I don't see how they can without postnews
being modified to point out the distribution possibilities, I would like to
see net.general replaced by usa.general and world.general. Then at least
submitters would be aware of their responsibilities when they submit.

I know that this is a slightly nasty solution (and we've been all through it
before), but on the other hand, only net.general is so abused.