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Bruce G Barnett

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Sep 8, 1987, 10:55:37 AM9/8/87
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In article <5...@unisoft.UUCP> j...@unisoft.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
|I looked in our junk directory and found 70 articles, none of them
|cross-posted, addressed to the following newsgroups:
|
| 17 comp.ai.vision

etc.

This is most likely due to
1. the typical user being unaware that these newsgroups
are supossed to have inet distribution instead of world.
2. The difficulty of setting up those newsgroups to be
distribution inet, but not world, usa, na, etc.

I thought the convention was to gateway the mailing lists to
mail.whatever, and was somewhat surprised to see the
distributions overlap the name space of comp.-


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Bruce G. Barnett <bar...@ge-crd.ARPA> <bar...@steinmetz.UUCP>
uunet!steinmetz!barnett

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