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From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Default Distribution Proposal
Message-ID: <3244@edm.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 00:07:59 GMT
References: <10360@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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From article <10360@ncc.Nexus.CA>, by lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg):
> In article <539@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> shore@ncifcrf.gov (Melinda Shore) writes:
>>                        My feeling was that the inconvenience of typing
>>a few extra keystrokes would discourage users from using the

>>Let us not underestimate our users or ourselves.  While I like the idea
>>tweak, break, and ignore.

> world. I would think that in most cases, because the poster has
> to expend a *bit* of thought choosing the distribution, they
> will choose something reasonable.

As an absolute worst case, it is little worse than it the current state.
as a best case, it will keep things like 'Atari ST 512K for sale' localized
to a more reasonable grouping.

 One minus though: people might take to specifying USA instead of NA and freeze
Canadiens out of reasonable discussions... (then again, we probably wouldn't 
have seen this MES junk, either...)
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 Stephen Samuel 
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