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ClariNet Distributions

Accepting the right distributions is crucial if you run INN. To set the distributions right, you need to know what edition of the ClariNews you subscribe to. It's best to only accept the exact distributions.

cl-1: One-Star Edition
cl-2: Two-Star Edition
cl-3: Three-Star Edition
cl-edu: Educational Edition
cl-4: Four-Star, Corporate and Edu-Plus editions.
cl-cbd: CBD package, which comes with Four Star, Edu and special Three-Star government edition.

Be sure to include cl-cbd along with your regular edition if you are receiving Commerce Business Daily. If we add new distributions we will warn you ahead of time in clari.net.admin.

ClariNet uses these distributions to control which stories go to which subscribers. Distributions in USENET news limit the distribution of an article. First the system decides if you get one of the newsgroups the article is in, and then it sees if you get any of the distributions.

A typical ClariNet article has a "Distribution:" line with a list of distributions for all the distributions it is in:

Distribution: cl-3,cl-edu,cl-4

Is an article in the Three-Star, Four Star and Educational editions but not in the One or Two Star.

By and large you don't need to worry about these distributions except in configuring your INN ME: line, or if you are one of our specially contracted hubs.