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From: dave@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Default Distribution Proposal
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Date: 29 Jul 88 18:44:25 GMT
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From article <1988Jul26.232430.1599@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> In article <6260@uwmcsd1.UUCP> jgd@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
>>I would like to expand this a "little".  The default distribution for *any*
>>(I repeat: ANY) news posting should be "local"!  ...
>>I can even see this as a site configuration option -- but would still lobby
>>for the *default* configuration being "local" distribution.
> 
> Trouble is, most everybody will configure it the other way then.  It's
> pointless to propose things that would help keep trash under control at
> the cost of making life harder for people who know what they're doing;
> such an idea either won't be implemented or will be bypassed automatically.
> You might possibly make it work if it were a per-*user* setting rather than
> a per-*site* setting.
I don't see the problem with a user overridable default local-dist setting
and how this makes life harder for someone like me who (usually) knows
what he's doing.

Henry, you folks up in the great white north don't (or do you ;-) know
how dumb us americans are when it comes to geography. Ted Koppel of ABC
news on Nightline the other night surveyed the public, and found that 
only something like 20% of the people aged 18-25 could identify the
capitol of the united states, and only 5% knew the US was not a member
of the warsaw pact.

Anyhow, it would be nice if the folks here when posting news could just
press return and post locally, unless they know enough to hit a few
more keystrokes. I think this applies to other sites as well, but if
not we'll probably do this to our users.


Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee
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