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Article #292Re: What's wrong with rec,soc, etc distribution?
From: Mark Bixby
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:37
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:37
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I don't recall seeing this in a FAQ, but from reading various threads in the news.* groups pertaining to INN's more rigid enforcement of distribution: headers, the Backbone Cabal feels that comp,rec,soc,etc. distribs are a Bad Thing, and should be replaced by geographic (world,usa,na) or logical (inet,cerf) distribs. I don't think there's any technical reason, just a philosophical one. As more high-flow sites convert to INN and rigid distribution checking, if you continue to use distributions these sites choose to ignore, your article propagation will be severly limited. -- Mark Bixby Internet: markb@cccd.edu Coast Community College District 1370 Adams Avenue District Information Services Costa Mesa, CA, USA 92626 Technical Support (714) 432-5064 "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!news.cccd.edu!news.cccd.edu!not-for-mail From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) Newsgroups: news.admin.misc Subject: Re: What's wrong with rec,soc, etc distribution? Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:37:24 -0800 Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 16 Distribution: news Message-ID: <1iibb4INN17h@spock.dis.cccd.edu> References: <BETSYS.93Jan7152208@ra.cs.umb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: spock.dis.cccd.edu