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From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister)
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Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 07:05:44 EDT
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In article <8430@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP writes:
>U of Toronto occasionally sees U of Texas news too.  Geoff and I are thinking
>about a solution for this for C news; it's not simple.

I'd suspect that you could develop a simple mechanism for the
news software to recognize top level distributions, and pass those
along.  You just remove from the newsgroup line those groups that
aren't top level.

Of course, not knowing the design of C news, that may be harder than
it sounds.