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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: parallel sys file entries in C News
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.184257.25@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug28.123323.2598@robobar.co.uk> <1990Aug28.172106.20512@zoo.toronto.edu> <YM=%=1_@rpi.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 90 18:42:57 GMT

In article <YM=%=1_@rpi.edu> tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>One thing about this "popular myth" is that it is very useful, Henry,
>and I wish you wouldn't attempt to _discourage_ it...

The idea of a "local" distribution has merit.  The belief that it will
automatically do the right thing, everywhere, without attention, on the
other hand, is badly misguided.  As witness:

>Do you know what the intended distribution of
>alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork was?  C'mon, one guess.  Somehow this
>person got a notion that Distribution: local meant something...
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