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In article <1993Jan21.205328.22029@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>  
mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
#In article <1jms6dINN2l8@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
#(Jim McCoy) writes:
#
#     It's not that simple.  First of all, nearby sites often request to
#receive ut traffic.  (As far as I can tell, "nearby" is a state of mind.
#Both sets of ut groups are distributed quite widely as far as I can
#tell.)  Secondly, cross-posts to non-ut newsgroups defeat the local
#distribution restriction mechanism.  (Look at the newsgroups line of
#this posting for instance.)
#     The real (often discussed but never implemented) solution is for us
#to rename our local newsgroups to something more significant.  This
#problem is going to get worse rather than better as more and more sites
#connect to the Internet.  How many UTs are there in the world?
#I have also seen (although more rarely) postings from Toledo and someone
#tells me they have seen postings from Tokyo.
#>
#>Which is, of course, why your official Internet domain name is
#>toronto.edu... 
#
#     Actually, the University of Toronto is both toronto.edu and
#utoronto.ca.  Both are official domain names.
#
#				Marc R. Roussel
#                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca

Hmmm... I wonder if the University of Hawaii gets some of our local posts  
since our local groups are uh.*

This makes for some interesting problems...  And to make matters worse,  
our domain is "uh.edu" so our local groups follow our domain...

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