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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Lets start world.politics
Message-ID: <47@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 01:36:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.47
Posted: Sun Jun 24 01:36:42 1984
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Reply-To: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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>Many times one has the choice between bothering net.foo about
>a local event, or bothering local.general with a subject that
>has a 'net' group, but not a 'local' one.  (I usually choose
>to bother local.general since fewer people that don't want to
>see it are bothered, and it keeps the costs down.)

This is exactly the situation that Distribution was created for.
The correct thing to do is
	Subject: Anybody know of a place to get a foo in town?
	Newsgroups: net.foo
	Distribution: local
This restricts the message to only go within "foo" but to appear
in newgroup "net.foo" on the local machines.