Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: How did this end up here? Message-ID: <16233@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 24 Jun 88 04:17:47 GMT References: <2244@homxc.UUCP> <10301@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <14802@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> <10333@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 19 In article <10333@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: |>) |Distribution: nj |>) What's it doing in California? | |>Last week I sent out two messages with Distribution: usa and I got |>replies back from Europe and Canada. Go figure. A couple of weeks after I created the gateway between info-gnu-* and gnu.*, Karl decided to try a sendsys in gnu.config.ctl, with "Distribution: gnu", just to see how far it had spread (impressively far, it turned out!). He got back several sys files that didn't mention gnu at all. Distribution lines don't seem to be a really reliable way to constrain the spread of an article. I don't know why. -- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!{att,pyramid,killer}!cis.ohio-state.edu!bob