gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) (12/25/84)
This default Distribution: business sure looks like a bug to me. It seems to me that a site that receives "net.sources" is receiving "net", just as a site that receives "net,!net.all" is receiving "net". Neither one is receiving all of "net", but that's not the question we wanted answered -- the question is, are they likely to be interested in a message distributed to the whole "net" (or "usa" or "uk" or whatever) and in the newsgroup "net.sources", and the answer is clearly yes. I don't think that the default article template should include a specific "Distribution:" line -- a blank one, maybe -- but even if the user says "Distribution: net", we can do "the right thing" by fixing it on the "Do I send this msg to this site?" end. Let's not default any badly-understood features to "on" in the next netnews release...