Newsgroups: tor.news
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!eastick
From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Re: Distribution weirdness
Message-ID: <89Apr22.201719edt.19487@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
References: <259@sickkids.UUCP>
Distribution: tor
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 89 20:17:18 EDT

In article <259@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>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
>
[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?

I don't know *why* it's being done, but mailrus is sending and jarvis is
accepting the "usa" distribution. When jarvis started getting it's
feed from mailrus, I noticed an increase in the number of articles/day
in most newgroups (mostly non-tecc groups: alt, soc, rec). I like this.
 
>Not that I'm complaining, mind you; I was glad to have seen the article.
>I'm just curious ...

IMHO, I think some/most of the posting software in the US defaults to
a "usa" distribution. Or it could be that the Americans think that
they are the only people in the world worthy of using computers :-).

I say keep it the way it is, or educate those Americans to us a
"world" or "na" distribution line.
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