Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncrlnk!uunet!mcvax!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan
From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Who guards the distribution
Message-ID: <432@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 20:03:55 GMT
Organization: U. of Keele, Staffs. U.K.
Lines: 18

Hi there.  I would like to know who is supposed to decide
whether an article gets propagated or not.  Over here in the
UK I'm getting articles for groups ny.*, seattle.*, wi.*, att.*, 
and a host of other distributions which I not supposed to get at all.
Sites have processed these articles who are outside the distribution
but all the sites passed them on, which is a waste of time and money.

What I'd like to know is: is the receiving site supposed to decide
if the article should be accepted, or should the sending site
decide whether to transmit it in the first place.  The first
method saves time and money in transmitting useless articles,
while the second method allows the receiving site to decide whether
to have a newsgroup without involving anyone else.
-- 
  _____     Jonathan Knight,               | JANET: jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs
    /       Department of Computer Science | other: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk
   / _   __ University of Keele, Keele,    | BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl
(_/ (_) / / Staffordshire.  ST5 5BG.  U.K. | Last Resort:...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan