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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: About all the used cars for sale in New Jersey ...
Message-ID: <307@kosman.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 12:34:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: kosman.307
Posted: Thu Oct  8 12:34:31 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 03:51:35 EDT
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Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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Keywords: distribution, default
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In article <372@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>As I read through a stack of used car adds from New Jersey last night
>a thought occurred to me:  There is a mechanism in place, at least
>in the latest news software, for supplying a narrow default distribution.
>
> ... [ more stuff about getting a narrow distribution into the postings ]

Well, I have lived in New Jersey recently, and I remember what was un-
helpful about these regional distributions.  There was no way to get two
of them to apply.  There was 'nj' and 'ny' and probably 'pa' (though I never
saw that where I lived).  Now if you lived (as most people in New Jersey do)
near a major out-of-state metro center, you probably wanted your posting
to go there too.  The smallest distribution that would do it was 'usa'.

What was needed was either larger regional distributions, or a way to have
several smaller ones on a posting.  Perhaps then news could be trained to
default misc.forsale postings to such a distribution.  There could be other
newsgroups that usually wanted a local distribution also.
-- 

Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman ) Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA  93035