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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: using the "Distribution:" feature
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 12:34:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 12:34:14 1984
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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