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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: About all the used cars for sale in New Jersey ...
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Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 11:32:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 24 11:32:29 1987
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In article <2456@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> lindsay@cheviot (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
>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.


well, I'll tell you why it won't work now.  Distribution names
are not unique across the whole network.  For an example, there is
a "uk" distribution here at UK (That is, the University of Kentucky).
I happen to know that y'all over thar in the other UK (United
Kingdom) ALSO have a "uk" distribution ...

Wouldn't it be rather confusing for someone in YOUR uk wanting
to post a question to one of our uk groups?

On the other hand one of the fortunes in /usr/games/fortune says:

	Any problem can be solved with a suitable level of indirection.

-- 
<---- David Herron,  Local E-Mail Hack,  david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet
<----                    {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
<---- I thought that time was this neat invention that kept everything
<---- from happening at once.  Why doesn't this work in practice?