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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Why are distributions mandatory in 2.10.2?
Message-ID: <303@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 23:20:23 EST
Article-I.D.: ukma.303
Posted: Sun Nov 18 23:20:23 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 08:03:45 EST
References: <368@watcgl.UUCP>, <77@daemon.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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>From: davest@daemon.UUCP (Dave Stewart)
>Subject: Re: Why are distributions mandatory in 2.10.2?
>Message-ID: <77@daemon.UUCP>
>Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 12:43:50 EST
>References: <368@watcgl.UUCP>

>In article <368@watcgl.UUCP> dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes:
>>At Waterloo, there are a number of local newsgroups associated with
>>courses with names like "cs488".  From their names, they appear to be
>>local groups, but in fact are explicitly distributed by the sys file
>>on each machine to whatever other machines share the group.  This scheme
>>worked fine under 2.10.1, but now we find that the 2.10.2 postnews
>>absolutely insists on assigning a distribution to every article
>>posted, and that this distribution must be one of the short list in
>>LIBDIR/distributions.
>>
>>Since there are several such groups, and since the set of machines that
>>are interested in the group is different for each group, creating a
>>separate distribution code for each of these newsgroups seems silly.

Couldn't you have a local distribution for ONLY your machines?  That
is something I have been planning to do here if we ever get one of
the local machines connected up.  You put these class newsgroups in
this local distribution, don't send it outside, and everybody will
be happy.
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