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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Default Distribution Proposal
Message-ID: <1988Jul26.232430.1599@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 88 23:24:30 GMT

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.
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