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From: dave@rsch.wisc.edu (Dave Cohrs)
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Subject: Re: What to do with unknown newsgroups.
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Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 11:01:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 11:01:28 1987
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It seems that what we need is a way to tell inews what to localize
and what not to localize, without changing the headers, of course.

A quick (meaning I didn't spend hours thinking about this) solution
would be to add another control file which lists distributions and
the sites that can post to them.  Something like:

comp    all
soc     all
uw      *.wisc.edu
etc,etc

[ let's assume such a file lives on uwvax, aka rsch.wisc.edu ]

This way, if uwvax receives a message for "misc.forsale,uw.general", it
would look to see which site originated the message.  If it isn't in the
list of "localizable" sites, it doesn't localize the distribution.

Comments?

Dave Cohrs                                             Proud member of NOTHING
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