Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm Subject: Re: Reducing News Volume (A Suggestion) Message-ID: <536@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 16:32:51 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.536 Posted: Sun Nov 17 16:32:51 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Nov-85 03:26:53 EST References: <164@utrc-2at.UUCP> <440@graffiti.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 Xref: watmath net.news:4374 net.news.adm:431 > Your suggestion would be equally well implemented by making the default > distribution as small as possible (state-wide, if you have that set up). > -- Of course, if you don't have a state or local distribution set up, the backbones could define a distribution called "regional" which means that the message would not get sent accross any backbone-to-backbone trunks. -Ron