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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Default Distribution Proposal
Message-ID: <1988Aug2.162025.16998@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Jul26.232430.1599@utzoo.uucp> <6333@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 16:20:25 GMT

In article <6333@uwmcsd1.UUCP> dave@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes:
>>>...The default distribution for *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...
>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.

The problem is that people do not like needing extra keystrokes to override
defaults.  The result will be that the software will be configured, or
hacked, so that local-dist is *not* the default.  Maybe you wouldn't do
this, but others would.
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