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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Who guards the distribution
Message-ID: <3615@phri.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 88 13:20:46 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
> is the receiving site supposed to decide if the article should be
> accepted, or should the sending site decide whether to transmit it

	The quick answer is "both".  If a receiving site des not have the
appropriate groups and/or distributions for an incomming article, it will
get junked.  Of course, as Johathan pointed out, you still pay to transmit
the bits from one place to the other (i.e. phone charges).  Much better to
talk to whoever is sending you the stuff you don't want and get them to
stop (i.e. take the offending groups/distribitions) out of your line in
their sys file.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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"The connector is the network"