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In article <BETSYS.93Jan7152208@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
>could some enlightened person please post a summary of what's wrong
>with these distributions (rec,soc,news) etc...

What do you think they accomplish?

Although there has historically been considerable confusion about
distributions, one thing is clear:  they are meant to *restrict*
the propagation of an article, to a smaller set of hosts than
those who would get it if the decision were based on newsgroups
alone.  The whole point of putting a distribution on an article is
that it is *different* from the newsgroup(s).

In general, a meaningful distribution name corresponds to some sort
of region of propagation -- a geographical area or an organization.
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