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From: darin@ut-dillo.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Distribution woes
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Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 15:00:45 EST
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> What annoys me about distributions is that the name of the various
> newsgroups are net.* and each individual article has a separate
> distribution.  What is 'net' if not a distribution?
> 
> This is especially annoying when one wants to post only locally, since
> the local version of a net group has to be created separately and subscribed
> to separately.
> 
> Why aren't the newsgroups named by topic and distribution controlled by
> a separate distribution line?

It was my impression that 'net' in net.anything was the *default*
distribution for articles.  Thus, local "versions" of a group are possible
by overriding this default.  Of course, I don't know what happens with
followup messages (I know how to do this in postnews).
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Darin Adler	{gatech,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!ut-sally!ut-dillo!darin

"Such a mass of motion -- do not know where it goes"	P. Gabriel