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Please be aware that [alt.food.wine] is an international
news groupd and don't be parochial. .

Ron Lel

The traditional, possibly more constructive advice for this situation, for
very many years, has been to make use of the "distribution" field when
posting the news article. That has been used commonly in the past to limit
its geographical distribution. (For many years the SF Bay Area was
designated "ba" there.) As I haven't tried it lately, I'll leave it to
someone to comment from recent experience, if any.