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From: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich)
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Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale
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Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 16:59:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  9 16:59:09 1984
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Reply-To: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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I heartily endorse any attempt to coerce posters to specify distribution.
However, it would do well to remember just how naive some users can be,
and how often they will simply ignore something they don't understand.
"Golly!  What does `distribution' mean?"  Explain everything as if the
explainee knows absolutely nothing!

I suggest that any prompt requesting the "distribution" for an article
should instead request the "appropriate geographical distribution".
Also, it might be necessary for some sites to interpret the meaning of
seemingly-obvious distributions.  Example:  From my site I can
distribute to "ne", "usa", "na", and "worldwide".  A beginner could
easily miss what the first and third mean, let alone whether something
like "local" refers to the machine, cluster, university, or city.