From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 10:04:04 CDT
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Maurizio Codogno wrote:
> " I find "Distribution: local" extremly useful for testing purposes.
>
> Yes, I forgot to mention that.
> So now it is basically a toggle (the articles either are sent outside
> our feed or not) :-)
Remember that not all news implementations consider "local" to be a magic
distribution name. (C News, for example, doesn't.) So this comes under
the more general heading of confining articles to a well-controlled subnet,
which is indeed the one thing Distribution is still good for.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net
(henry@zoo.toronto.edu)