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Article #286Re: "Official" distributions file for INN?
From: Rich Salz
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:56
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:56
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In <1ifq44INN62a@spock.dis.cccd.edu> markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) writes:
>Is there any authoritative list of distributions deemed valid by the Usenet
>community?
No. Some guy, wndrsvr!andyb, maintained a posting of common ones for
a few months but I haven't seen anything in a while from him.
> There's the standard stuff like world,usa,na etc, plus regionals
^^^^^
Not really a valid distribution. World was a hack introduced by B News
to mean "in the absence of any distribution". (Now it's a hack populated
by Geoff :-)
/r$
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!not-for-mail From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.software.b,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: "Official" distributions file for INN? Date: 7 Jan 1993 10:56:07 -0500 Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA Lines: 13 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1ihjqnINNaqb@rodan.UU.NET> References: <1ifq44INN62a@spock.dis.cccd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net