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This is the way Distribution is implemented.  Distribution provides
the poster a way of specifying classes of readers who may be
interested in the post and provides readers (newsadmins) a way of
limiting incoming news.  Distribution does NOT provide a way for
posters to limit where their articles go; Distribution is merely a
suggestion of usefulness.

Newsadmins are notably independent cusses :-) who configure sys files
the way they want to, and this includes passing Distribution: usa to
sites not physically in the USA but readers are interested (perhaps
temporarily assigned elsewhere, or going to school).  Canadians, for
example, are also often interested in Distribution: usa, due to
proximity.

If you are a newsadmin and you are fed distributions you don't want
(you want to limit dialup costs or disk usage), it's up to you to
complain to your feeds.

As a summary, the Distribution mechanism is not broken just because a
uk site receives a Distribution: usa article.  The feed's sys file may
be misconfigured; a user can't tell.  Only the admin has any idea of
admin decisions.  So, ask your newsadmin.  Another reader may have
asked for Distribution: usa.

If you don't like the poster's lack of control, build your own
centrally-controlled network.  A USENET poster just can't control what
admins at other sites do in the anarchy of USENET.
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