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From: gds@sri-spam.ARPA (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Re: child care
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 16:36:27 EDT
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I can attest to the fact that there are local distributions in Holmdel,
where I used to work.  The fact that they are unused is largely because
there are only one or two people running news, and news administration
is about the lowest priority on their long list of responsibilities.
That combined with the fact that there are over 6,000 potential news
posters makes it difficult to inform people what the correct ways to do
things are.

As far as getting software upgrades, I wouldn't count on it, for many of
the same reasons as above.  I had suggested that the at&t sites set the
distribution to something more local as default (like 'ho', or 'ih'),
but got no response.

The last time I looked, the distribution arrangements for news were
trying to be comp-center based.  If you'll check Joe Buck's map, you'll
see a path running from ihnp4 -- houxm -- whuxl -- whuxlm -- akgua, and
another running from ihnp4 -- mhuxr -- mhuxn -- ulysses.  In a former
posting, this is what I referred to as the "critical path" through at&t
which handles quite a lot of news.

If you work at any of these places, and care about having local
distributions set up as default, get in touch with the system
administrators at your sites.

--gregbo