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From: chris@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU (Chris Johnston)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Using "local" as a newsgroup name considered harmful
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 17:14:51 EDT
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There is nothing you can do as long as you restrict the name space to
2 or 3 characters.  If you use names like utexas.wanted or
uwisc.general or bayarea.eats you won't have a problem.

cj