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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Proper Distribution: entries?
Message-ID: <62562@looking.on.ca>
Date: 16 Dec 89 21:30:11 GMT
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Too bad there's no easy answer to this.  One would like distribution and
newsgroup to be orthogonal, but you can't quite do this.   For example,
there are some groups that you don't want to set a maximum distribution
on -- such as local political groups and forsales groups and "housing wanted"
groups etc.

Perhaps the ideal solution would be groups without distribution in them
and a file indicating the maximum distribution for the group.  Then we
could get distribution out of the group name, and avoid many wars.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473