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From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu>
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  especially for those in australia. (domain .au, pity the poor south 
  africans, domain .za).  the next is to see how many users are at the 
  various domains and have them distribute the mail locally, rather than 
  having freefall contact 4 different machines in apana.org.au, for instance 

This is starting to sound like the normal Usenet propagation, except
you have to set it up manually.