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scott-ralph@math.yale.edu (Ralph Scott) writes:

> When posting to the net from gnus, why does gnus query the user at the
> stage of requesting "distribution" with the initial letters of the
> current newsgroup already typed into the response line?

It's a bug.  These diffs (to gnuspost.el in Gnus 3.14.1) should give
the desired functionality:

*** gnuspost.el,orig	Sat May 18 10:30:43 1991
--- gnuspost.el	Mon May 11 11:47:20 1992
***************
*** 30,39 ****
--- 30,47 ----
  (defvar gnus-winconf-post-news nil)
  
  (autoload 'news-reply-mode "rnewspost")
  (autoload 'timezone-make-date-arpa-standard "timezone")
  
+ ;; Adjust this list for your local distributions. These are ok for the
+ ;; usa, local areas might want to add their own (like nj, ny, ne, ca, etc).
+ 
+ (defvar gnus-distributions-assoc
+   '(("world" 1) ("na" 2) ("usa" 3) ("local" 4) ("ne" 5))
+   "*Valid distributions for your location")
+ 	
+ 
  ;;; Post news commands of GNUS Group Mode and Subject Mode
  
  (defun gnus-Group-post-news ()
    "Post an article."
    (interactive)
***************
*** 175,186 ****
  		      (substring newsgroups 0 (string-match "\\." newsgroups)))
  		(if (string-equal distribution newsgroups)
  		    ;; Newsgroup may be general or control. In this
  		    ;; case, use default distribution.
  		    (setq distribution gnus-default-distribution))
  		(setq distribution
! 		      (read-string "Distribution: " distribution))
  		;; An empty string is ok to ignore gnus-default-distribution.
  		;;(if (string-equal distribution "")
  		;;    (setq distribution nil))
  		))
  	  (news-setup () subject () newsgroups artbuf)
--- 183,198 ----
  		      (substring newsgroups 0 (string-match "\\." newsgroups)))
  		(if (string-equal distribution newsgroups)
  		    ;; Newsgroup may be general or control. In this
  		    ;; case, use default distribution.
  		    (setq distribution gnus-default-distribution))
+  		;; Bug fix by sdb%hotmomma@uunet.uu.net
+  		;; Don't set distribution field to heirarchy name.
+  		;; prevents much flames and mail.
  		(setq distribution
! 		      (completing-read "Distribution: " gnus-distributions-assoc
! 				       nil nil))
  		;; An empty string is ok to ignore gnus-default-distribution.
  		;;(if (string-equal distribution "")
  		;;    (setq distribution nil))
  		))
  	  (news-setup () subject () newsgroups artbuf)

> And where, in anywhere, do the
> possible responses that gnus will accept appear in the infotex
> documentation?

I don't know the answer to that.
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