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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
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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.
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