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From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: proposed new distribution category
Message-ID: <692@ccssrv.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 89 04:52:26 GMT
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In article <1989Sep23.012427.8789@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

Brad> this new proposal wants to specify ...  the degree of commercialness.

From Randall Atkinson's original posting <757@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>:

Atk> "uucpnet" ... would be the UUCP sites' counterpart to the Internet
Atk> distribution "inet".

Atk> This would permit news traffic which is too commercial for
Atk> Internet sites to be sent world-wide without using the
Atk> Internet links.  Occasionally there is other traffic which
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Atk> is of interest to the UUCP part of the net but would not
Atk> be of interest to the Internet.

Note that the proposal was for a distribution meaning "don't transport this
over the Internet."  Although the principal suggested *use* was for messages
which might be considered "too commercial", that was not the *meaning*.

Brad> if the proposal was implemented, as proposed, as a distribution, how
Brad> would you post such a commercial article to U.S. sites only?  Right,
Brad> you couldn't.

You can't specify a regional or national limitation when using the "inet"
distribution either, can you?  "inet" means "anyplace you can reach on the
Internet."  "uucpnet" would mean "anyplace you can reach without using the
Internet."