Re: Usenet and X*Press (fwd)
Brian Smithson (starnet!apple!eit.COM!brian)
Fri, 18 Feb 94 13:38:56 PST
On Feb 18, 8:05am, Richard Schaal wrote:
> Subject: Re: Usenet and X*Press (fwd)
> According to Brian Smithson:
>
> I had considered "Distribution: local" before making the previous suggestion
> as "Distribution: X*PRESS". Everything I read about this header option
> indicates that without the "Distribution: xxx" line, the default is "world",
> and that "local" has no special meaning to the software. I did check the
> C-News source, and it certainly doesn't look for "local"
> [...]
> Anyway, we will go ahead and go with Brian's suggestion since he used to be a
> REAL net-news guru. Look for the change in the March distribution.
Alas, I was a "Bnews" guru. "Distribution: x*press" might be better, since
it forces administrators to do something explicitly. I'd worry a little about
putting the "*" in the distribution name, because it might wreak havoc with
someone's shell scripts or something. Maybe "Distribution: xpress" would
be better?
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