Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!mhuxj!ihnp4!mit-eddie!smh From: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale Message-ID: <2850@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 16:59:09 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2850 Posted: Tue Oct 9 16:59:09 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 06:21:01 EDT References: <550@sunybcs.UUCP> <5988@mcvax.UUCP> <10309@gatech.UUCP> <1843@uw-june> Reply-To: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13 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.