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  Usenet news flow through Groucho Marx University.

The labels on the arrows originating from brewhq may require some explanation, though. By default, it wants all locally generated news to be sent to groucho.edu. However, as groucho.edu does not carry the fj groups, there's no pointing in sending it any messages from those groups. Therefore, the feed from brewhq to GMU is labelled all,!fj, meaning that all groups except those below fj are sent to it.



Ross Biro
Fri May 19 10:18:11 PDT 1995