From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 21 1999 - 08:47:23 CDT
In <Pine.BSI.3.91.990920110230.8555B-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>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.
Yes, but that is a deliberate change in this draft. C News will need to
change to be compliant (but I suspect that simply means the default sys
file needs to do it right).
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