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From: john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: EndOfSourcesList+AnnouncementOfNetOmbudsman
Message-ID: <1482@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 22:11:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1482
Posted: Fri Jul  3 22:11:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 19:37:50 EDT
References: <267@brandx.rutgers.edu> <1610@celtics.UUCP> <275@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
Lines: 31
Keywords: solving the moderation bottleneck

In article <275@brandx.rutgers.edu>, webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
> > Please create
> > a specific distribution code for messages rammed into newsgroups
> Creating a specific distribution code is IDENTICAL to creating a
> unmoderated group which is EXACTLY what is being requested and has
> been requested for the last month.

No, No, No!  BOB, you're continually decreasing you're credibility.
First, a new distribution code does not create a line in the active
file, does not count against the newsgroup limit, and, most
importantly, does not create a new place for the articles to reside,
but just puts them in the newsgroup(s) the article was posted to.
This article has a distribution of "world".  If it had a distribution
of "usa" it would still show up in comp.sources.d, but on less
machines.  You wouldn't be able to tell the difference unless you
looked at the headers.

Second, what he was proposing was *one* distribution code to be
applied to *any* messages forced into *any* moderated newsgroups.
This would be used in place of "world", not in place of the name of
the newsgroup.

[Your confusion probably comes from the common pratice of creating a
set of limited-distribution newsgroups with a prefix identical to the
distribution.  This is just a convenience to let the users work better
with the software and to help things be administered, nothing more.]

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