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Article #248Re: Problem with 'usa' distribution
From: Ian Phillipps
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:19
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:19
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pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle) writes: >I posted an article to alt.fan.pratchett last night, with the >distribution 'usa'. Got email this morning from someone in the UK >letting me know that Distribution: usa didn't seem to work properly. >Should it work? Or is that a non-existent distribution? It should, but it doesn't. There are *lots* of postings restricted to "usa" without any particular reason, so many news admins outside the USA accept them (and "na"). Why didn't you want us to see your article? I've seen a posting from Turkey, in Turkish (I think) with a "usa" distribution on it. Ian -- Ian Phillipps, Unipalm Ltd, 216 Science Park, Phone +44 223 420002 Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 4WA, England. Phax +44 223 426868 PIPEX is a division of Unipalm Ltd. - phone 0223 424616.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!unipalm!ian From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) Newsgroups: news.admin.misc Subject: Re: Problem with 'usa' distribution Message-ID: <1993Jan24.191954.22811@unipalm.co.uk> Date: 24 Jan 93 19:19:54 GMT References: <pfritsch.727900044@skid.ps.uci.edu> Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK Lines: 21