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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: usa.all? (etc)
Message-ID: <618@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 18:50:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 18 18:50:36 1983
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The intent of usa and na newsgroup classes was that they would be
used on the Distribution line, not as part of the newsgroup.
Thus, if you're talking about what you hate about the US Congres,
you might post to net.politics, with Distribution set to usa:
	Newsgroups: net.politics
	Distribution: usa
It seems to me that creating na.general and usa.general will just
clutter up the net.

However, if people feel that they can't trust the Distribution
mechanism well enough, we can create these newsgroups.  There is
an annoying bug in postnews, and probably heavy use of Distribution
will show up more bugs.  However, the real key is how many systems
will forward usa and na to their appropriate neighbors.  I asked
everyone to add these long ago, and I assume most sites have, but
you never know for sure.  If they are pretty much everywhere, then
we should just use Distribution.

	Mark