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From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: use of bell.all
Message-ID: <286@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-May-84 00:38:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 00:38:32 1984
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This is a followup to Scott Orshan's followup... which I agree with
99%.  However, there is a situation where posting to a distribution
that you are not part of, may be warranted.  This is the situation
where you wish to, say, rent an apartment in Chicago (Example! I don't!)
As you cannot post to chi.wanted, you post to net.wanted with the effect
that people who haven't the slightest interest in your query, get to
see the posting.

Scott writes....

>> It was never intended that people outside a distribution post
>> to that dist.  For one thing, if you're not part of that
>> dist., the article will never leave your machine.  It is

To get around this, you may wish to mail to someone in Chicago, and
have them place the message in the appropriate group.  But what if you
don't know anyone in Chicago? Another case in point is the pa.all 
distribution that I am part of.  I have yet to see anything appear in
this.  We are far closer to New Jersey than to (say) Pittsburgh.

As I have no intention of saying "...I wanna"; I'd like to propose
a possible solution.  How about setting up a mail alias of
"wanted" on every system, such that mailing to "wanted" will post the
article to the smallest possible distribution that the site is a part
of.  Thus, to post something to chi.wanted, I could just find a site
in Chicago (via the usenet maps) and mail my letter to 
.....!<chicago-site>!wanted .

In fact, I will set up something like that over here for anyone who
wishes to post to pa.wanted.  (Just give me a week or so till exams
are over).  I think that this would solve the problem adequately.
I would appreciate feedback on this.

Regards, 
-- 


				Binayak Banerjee
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