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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: New groups coming in without newgroup?
Message-ID: <339@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 11:04:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: acornrc.339
Posted: Fri Jun  5 11:04:49 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jun-87 05:36:59 EDT
References: <336@acornrc.UUCP> <6933@mimsy.UUCP> <6341@garnet.BBN.COM>
Organization: Acorn Research Centre, Palo Alto, CA
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Summary: Articles have distribution "world", newgroup had "inet"

In article <6341@garnet.BBN.COM>, mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau) writes:
> propogate Arpanet mailing lists as newsgroups among themselves.  They (we)
> created a new distribution called "inet", sent out newgroup messages for the
> new groups to the inet distribution, and have started sending mailing list
> 
> Erik (Fair @ Berkeley), do you know what's going on, and what we ought to do 
> to stop the leakage?  Is this a problem due to pre-2.11 sites whose software

The newgroup control messages may have been sent to distribution "inet",
but the articles themselves have more mundane distributions like "world",
"usa", etc.  This explains the mystery.

On the other hand, why is "stopping the leakage" the right thing to do rather
than issuing correct newgroup messages?  Personally, I welcome (at least)
comp.software-eng and comp.lang.postscript as useful new groups and have
established them locally.

-- 
Bob Weissman
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