In message <19940216.7BBDED0.12AA4@serpens.rhein.de>,
S.P.Zeidler writes:
> You take in a moderated group, you get what the moderators deemed
> fit to show up there. As the moderators of news.answers _insist_
> that de.answers get crossposted to news.answers (with de.answers
> only you'd never have seen it), they'll most likely also insist
> that Distribution:, if present, is world. So duh.
No, we won't. In fact, we state explicitly in one of the *.answers
FAQ postings that an author can use a distribution to restrict the
propagation of an FAQ posting if he/she desires. From 'Introduction
to the *.answers newsgroups":
>If an FAQ maintainer feels that his or her posting
>is of interest only to people in its home hierarchy, then (s)he can
>(try to) restrict the distribution of the FAQ using the Distribution
>mechanism; if (s)he feels that it is of general interest, (s)he can
>avoid any Distribution restrictions, in which case the FAQ might
>receive a wider distribution than most postings in the hierarchy.
I agree with Mathew -- I see no reason why German-language FAQ
postings shouldn't have "Distribution: de" in their headers.
Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@security.ov.com
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