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From: jep@tlxprs.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Re: Default Distribution Proposal
Message-ID: <443@tlxprs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 88 16:45:43 GMT
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In article <4741@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
>
>different suggestion - how about a new feature where each group
>(possibly, maybe entire hierarchies instead?) has a default 
>distribution.  thus, we could have a new file, which would includes
>lines of the form
>
>newgroup-pattern:distribution
>
>so that each newsgroup would then have a default distribution.

I personally think that this is an excellent idea. Maybe the news hackers can
hack up a new patch for this feature.

For things like "For Sale" I think that a default distribution as 'jfh'
suggested for the current state would be a good idea unless it was known that
somewhere else, there may be an interested party.

-Jo Poplawski

...!princeton!telesci!fantasci!jep

Disclaimer: but that is only my $0.02 worth...