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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
Message-ID: <3720001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 15:46:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 15:46:18 1987
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/ nucsrl:news.admin / flee@gondor.psu.edu (Felix Lee) / 10:53 pm  Aug 18, 1987 /
> [...]
>Solution:  Make all names unique.  Either make sure they're globally
>unique, like UUCP, or qualify the names, like ARPA:
>	/world/na/usa/canada/waterloo/uw.general
>Something less clumsy would be better.
>
>Solution:  Disallow posting to a region you don't belong in.  Force
>Distribution to be the smallest distribution of all the Newsgroups,
>so the article doesn't ever leave the region.
> [...]
>Any other solutions?
>--
>Felix Lee	flee@gondor.psu.edu	{cbosgd,cmcl2}!psuvax1!gondor!flee
>Copyright (C) 1987 by Felix Lee.  Reprinted with permission.

Sure.  Just don't cross-post something that goes to a global group to any of
the local groups.

Jacob Gore				gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{gargoyle,ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!gore