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In article <1992May11.160818.18903@becker.GTS.ORG> bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker) writes:
>In article <1992May11.111443.22892@skypod.guild.org> scott@skypod.guild.org (Scott Campbell) writes:
>|In article <1992May9.163756.8283@splunge.uucp> adrian@splunge.uucp (Adrian Ashley) writes:
>|>
>|>Since ``Distribution:'' headers don't work, you might consider posting
>|>this only to tor.* groups and not to can.* groups...
>|
>|In what way do distribution headers not work?  If you have !tor in your
>|ME: line (or the equivalent if you don't use cnews) then you would not 
>|receive this article.  (or have your upstream feed not send you tor.)
>|
>|Distributions work as well as you make them work.
>
>
>	Would that this were so, but it ain't...
>
>
>	Distributions don't work at all in the
>	"ME" line of C news.
>
>
>	Putting "!tor" in the "ME" line only has the effect
>	of refusing all articles in the "tor." newsgroup
>	hierarchy - one may indeed want to do this, but
>	it's a different effect from a distribution,
>	which seeks to limit all articles with the
>	header "Distribution: tor" regardless of the
>	"Newsgroup:" line contents.


Sorry, I haven't configured cnews lately.. I thought you could put
!tor after the / in the ME: line... guess I was wrong.  Personally I
have all/all since I like to see stuff out of territory.


>
>
>	"Distribution:" lines don't work since so many
>	C news sites have the equivalent of
>
>		"feedsite:all/all:f:"
>
>	in their news "sys" files for downstream feeds.

It should only take a quick mail note to ask your upstream feed to add
!tor to your feed (of course I realize that it can be more difficult but
"my upstream feed won't edit my sys entry" is no excuse for the rest of
us to stop using distributions.  If you are getting distributions you don't
want, do something about it or stop complaining.  Distributions can work
if you want them to.

>	Therefore an article with these header lines
>	will propagate almost everywhere:
>
>		Newsgroups: can.usrgroup,tor.general
>		Distribution: tor

When enough people who don't want these articles get them, they will stop
propogating everywhere.

(Of course, it should be mentioned that the unix-unanimous mailing list is
the right place to put uu announcements and that list gets gatewayed to
can.usrgroup so this whole discussion is academic.  If its the wrong group
then we should rename can.usrgroup not change where we post.)

scott
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