Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site persci.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!persci!bill From: bill@persci.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: RE: Stolen Modem (need rn modification) Message-ID: <203@persci.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 13:51:46 EDT Article-I.D.: persci.203 Posted: Wed Jun 26 13:51:46 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:57:28 EDT References: <2939@drutx.UUCP> <1294@elecvax.OZ> <904@sdcsla.UUCP> <259@runx.OZ> Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA Lines: 16 > >>Why is the report of a stolen modem going out all over the world? > >>Can't stuff like this be restricted to the place of origin or > >>something? > >>AUSTRALIA >We just need to keep in mind that net.* goes all over the WORLD. At the >risk of starting a meta-discussion (?), articles about pinched modems >really should be local e.g. newsgroup "general" or something. One slight (related) problem is that the latest version of 'rn' doesn't prompt for distribution. In fact, it behaves as if such a thing didn't exist, outside of a line in the header. Our old 'postnews' at least prompted for it, which reminded the user about it. I am afraid that our new news-readers here won't learn about distributions, if they use 'rn'. -- Bill Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill