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In article <1im5tcINN5qc@flash.pax.tpa.com.au> dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au writes:
>This sounds like a terrible idea to me. Living outside the na/usa area where
>most news comes from, I want to read all this stuff in rec,soc,comp, etc and
>I don't care who the poster is or where he/she comes from, their words are just
>as important to me !

So what's the problem?  Distributions specify where you want messages to go
*to*, not where they come from.  If you want to see messages that are only
intended to go to the USA, you'll probably have to find a feed in the USA,
or someone local who also wants that stuff.  But why should all the
newsfeeds in the world have to receive it just in case a few leaf sites want
it?

>Let's face it ... everyone in the world is going to have to get the na and usa
>distributions to stay in touch

I think most news has "world" distribution (it's the default in our
configuration), so why is this?  Why would posters put usa or na
distributions on general interest postings?

Until I fixed the distribution filter at our site, I was seeing
announcements of seminars 3000 miles away in comp.misc, and requests for
videotape loans all over the place in rec.arts.tv.  These are the kinds of
posts for which geographic distributions are appropriate.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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