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From: mangoe@mimsy.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: THe local Distribution Problem
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 22:22:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 22:22:51 1987
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We're having a severe specifications problem here.  Let's start with
something very basic:

   If an article is posted to comp.x AND to local.x, do we want it to go to
   ANY site outside of the distribution appropriate to "local.*"?

My feeling is that we don't, or at least, that we don't want it to default
to that.  It seems to me that an article which is only of local interest in
the second group is therefore not really of national or global interest in
the first.  If this is the case, stripping the local groupname off is
exactly the wrong thing to do; the correct thing would be to force the
article's distribution to conform to that appropriate for the local group.

C. Wingate