Xref: utzoo news.admin:3256 news.software.b:1551 Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!ucsd!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!telesci!lunar!tlxprs!jep 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 Article-I.D.: tlxprs.443 References: <1988Jul26.232430.1599@utzoo.uucp> <6333@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <539@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <10360@ncc.Nexus.CA> <4741@rpp386.UUCP> Reply-To: jep@tlxprs.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) Organization: Telexpress Inc. Lines: 23 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...