Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!lsuc!sickkids!mark
From: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Distribution weirdness
Message-ID: <259@sickkids.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 18:55:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: sickkids.259
Reply-To: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
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Organization: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
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A friend forwarded me an article from sci.research that was posted by
Roy Smith (roy@phri), which had the following header line:

   Distribution: usa

The article was sent to, and accepted by, jarvis.csri.toronto.edu, but
doesn't seem to have made it here.  I'm assuming that it probably won't.
Since some of our news gets here from jarvis via one intermediate hop at
dptcdc, I'm assuming that whatever it is that filters out articles which
aren't meant for tor|ont|can|na|world distribution is working properly,
at least somewhere.

The final part of the path was ...

   tut.cis.ohio-state.edu => mailrus => jarvis.csri.toronto.edu

My question is, why did it make it to jarvis at all?  Was mailrus screwing
up by sending it to Canada despite the "Distribution:" line, or was jarvis
screwing up by accepting it?  Or both?

Not that I'm complaining, mind you; I was glad to have seen the article.
I'm just curious ...

Ah, I know:  The anti- free trade zealots were right.  We actually have
become indistinguishable from the US.  ;-)

Mark Bartelt                        UUCP: {utzoo,utgpu,lsuc}!sickkids!mark
Hospital for Sick Children          BITNET: mark@sickkids.utoronto
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