mikey@ontek.UUCP (Michael E. Lee) (12/01/89)
In article <1477@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes: | We recently started up a la.general USENET news group that is being | distributed in the News Orleans and Lafayette areas, with an NNTP exchange | between Tulane (rex) and USL (rouge) on Internet. Russell Lawrence | (russ@wpg.uucp) has suggested that others in Louisiana would be interested in | participating in this news group. Are you? Not really. Like it or not, the newsgroup la.general has been active for quite awhile in Los Angeles, California. Apparently one or more of the machines mentioned in the above article are leaking the newsgroup out to UUNET or some other major site. The path on the article was thus: uunet!wpg!rex!mb I agree that la.general would be a very proper and fitting name for a Louisiana newsgroup, but the name is already taken. I suggest that you either choose a different name, or be careful with the sys files so that nothing leaks out. Be also warned that it will be quite difficult to keep things from leaking IN as well. Based on the above path, it looks like the "wpg" machine is the culprit in the leak. As more Louisiana machines are added to the connectivity of the group, the harder it will be to contain the articles geographically. The distribution name "la" doesn't help either. Same problem. I would suggest louisiana.general as a nice unique name. It will save you quite a bit of heartache in the future. I have cross-posted to news.groups because (a) everyone else seems to :-) and (b) perhaps some of those guys have some better ideas about conflicting names for local hierarchies and distributions. _K_r_i_l_l-_M_a_n mikey@ontek.com