Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!steven From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: using the "Distribution:" feature Message-ID: <5877@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 12:34:14 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.5877 Posted: Fri Jun 22 12:34:14 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Jun-84 00:00:47 EDT References: <225@west44.UUCP> <83@chalmers.UUCP> <261@haring.UUCP> <502@erix.UUCP> <253@west44.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 10 The Distribution: facility has existed for ages and *has* been pointed out on the net. And still hardly anyone actually uses it. The problem is, it's difficult to find out what is acceptable as reply to the prompt, and there is no encouragement to actually restrict the distribution of a posting (quite the contrary in fact, since the default is always the newsgroup you are posting to). For these reasons (I imagine), rather than use postings to net.politics with a distribution of "eunet", the European net has a eunet.politics. This *does* seem to work. Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax