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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
Message-ID: <8532@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 16:39:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 16:39:34 1987
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> Yeah. What about looking at the domain of the poster in the From:
> line when you receive the article, and making a decision based
> on that as to whether to post to the local group a cross-posted article
> which includes a locallish-distribution group? ...

Geoff and I kicked this idea around a bit, but couldn't find a workable
variation.  The problem is that the From: line format varies and does
not dependably contain a particular domain.  For example, this article
is from "henry@utzoo.UUCP" (unless something along the way has mucked
up the From: line), and rules applying to "toronto.edu" won't catch it.
Worse, even if we assume everyone updates to using proper domains (dream
on...), the correspondence between domains and local news regions is at
best coincidental, which shoots down fancier versions of the scheme.
For example, there is no domain or small set of domains that corresponds
to the "ont" region.
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"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry