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In article <1993Jan24.191954.22811@unipalm.co.uk> ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps) writes:

>pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle) writes:
>
>>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?

Is that really your concern?  People have all kinds of reasons for
posting articles with limited distributions on them; perhaps he was
asking about a US-specific television show, or some other bit of U.S.
trivia.  I know people who, when asking a simple question on a
technical newsgroup, will limit the distribution to their immediate
geographic area so as not to trouble the rest of the world with it.

I agree that it's annoying to see people post limited-distibution
articles for no visible reason, but I don't think this is the
solution.  It defeats the purpose.

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