Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!lindsay From: lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: About all the used cars for sale in New Jersey ... Message-ID: <2456@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 08:30:23 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.2456 Posted: Thu Oct 15 08:30:23 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 21:03:03 EST References: <372@nuchat.UUCP> <307@kosman.UUCP> <2958@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: lindsay@cheviot (Lindsay F. Marshall) Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE17RU Lines: 20 Keywords: distribution, default Xref: mnetor news.admin:1239 news.software.b:906 Some people seem to be missing the point here. What we need is the ability to send with distributions totally alien to your local domain. For example, if I were planning a trip to New York, I might wish to ask in rec.music.folk for suggestions for places I might go to hear some music. I therefore want to post the article with a distribution of ny and have the UK backbone forward this across the Atlantic where the message would then be shipped to a site within the ny distribution whereupon the message would propagate itself to all the appropriate sites. This works fine for mail (for those who use proper mailers :-) ) so why shouldnt it work for mail as well? It would certainly elimnate an awful lot of rubbish from the net.....mind would there would be a lot less rubbish if people actually used ANY sort of distributions other than world! Lindsay -- Lindsay F. Marshall JANET: lindsay@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot ARPA: lindsay%cheviot.newcastle@ucl-cs PHONE: +44-91-2329233 UUCP: !ukc!cheviot!lindsay "How can you be in two places at once when you're not any by14/3 a bitar