Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc Subject: Re: More NNTP leakage? Message-ID: <2477@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 10:55:37 EDT Article-I.D.: vdsvax.2477 Posted: Tue Sep 8 10:55:37 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 07:15:44 EDT References: <541@unisoft.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 22 Xref: mnetor news.admin:974 news.misc:902 In article <541@unisoft.UUCP> jef@unisoft.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes: |I looked in our junk directory and found 70 articles, none of them |cross-posted, addressed to the following newsgroups: | | 17 comp.ai.vision etc. This is most likely due to 1. the typical user being unaware that these newsgroups are supossed to have inet distribution instead of world. 2. The difficulty of setting up those newsgroups to be distribution inet, but not world, usa, na, etc. I thought the convention was to gateway the mailing lists to mail.whatever, and was somewhat surprised to see the distributions overlap the name space of comp.- -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett