Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!gnu From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Re: default Distribution: problem Message-ID: <1899@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 22:50:10 EST Article-I.D.: sun.1899 Posted: Mon Dec 24 22:50:10 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Dec-84 04:18:10 EST References: <368@watcgl.UUCP> <77@daemon.UUCP> <465@watcgl.UUCP> <97@daemon.UUCP> <824@ru-cs44.UUCP> <609@munnari.OZ> <2033@Glacier.ARPA> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 17 This default Distribution: business sure looks like a bug to me. It seems to me that a site that receives "net.sources" is receiving "net", just as a site that receives "net,!net.all" is receiving "net". Neither one is receiving all of "net", but that's not the question we wanted answered -- the question is, are they likely to be interested in a message distributed to the whole "net" (or "usa" or "uk" or whatever) and in the newsgroup "net.sources", and the answer is clearly yes. I don't think that the default article template should include a specific "Distribution:" line -- a blank one, maybe -- but even if the user says "Distribution: net", we can do "the right thing" by fixing it on the "Do I send this msg to this site?" end. Let's not default any badly-understood features to "on" in the next netnews release...