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From: arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: use of bell.all, sending to non-local distributions
Message-ID: <7091@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 13:38:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: gatech.7091
Posted: Thu May 10 13:38:18 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 12:10:19 EDT
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Organization: Committee to Eliminate Redundancy Committee
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[Spock Lives!]

In reference to the idea of ...!<non-local-site>!wanted, the question was
raised about how to determine which of the possible distributions in the
<non-local-site>'s area to distribute to (e.g. Atlanta vs. Georgia).

One suggestion was to have several 'wanted' logins, e.g. atl.wanted,
ga.wanted.  Instead I propose that 'wanted' be treated like a site, with
the distribution as the id, i.e.  ...!gatech!wanted!atl	would only be
distributed to the Atlanta area.  This seems more consistent with current
practice/usage/convention.  This localizes things in the treatment of
the 'wanted' id, instead of there having to be N copies for each different
distribution.

(Parenthetical note, I am using gatech and atlanta as examples only,
I'm not volunteering either myself or my administator to set this up.
It should be a net wide decision, anyway. Besides, we're both somewhat
busy at the present.)

So much for my two cents,
-- 
Arnold Robbins
CSNET: arnold@gatech
ARPA:  arnold%gatech.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
UUCP:  ...!{akgua, allegra, rlgvax, sb1, ut-sally}!gatech!arnold

"All this digital stuff is just a fad.  Analog is the way to go."
	-- William M. Robbins, 1984