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From: john@zygot.UUCP (John Higdon)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Too much cross-posting?
Summary: what defines "main"?
Message-ID: <1501@zygot.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 89 08:16:06 GMT
References: <674@whizz.uucp> <171@zebra.UUCP> <157@zorch.UU.NET> <688@whizz.uucp>
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In article <688@whizz.uucp>, bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes:
> Look. Either you define the validity of moving this group to the main newsfeed
> based on:

What defines "main newsfeed"? After routinely reading about UNIX-PCs in
comp.sys.att, this meta-discussion of crossposting appeared. I hadn't
paid any attention the unix-pc in the newsgroups line until then.
Discovering that the unix-pc.* groups didn't appear in my active file,
I found out from scott@zorch what their names were and duly inserted
them. Voila! A short time later, unix-pc articles appear from my main
newsfeed.

This very article came in on the following path:

zygot!dlb!amdahl!apple!ames!lll-winken!pacbell!safari!whizz!bbh

Looks pretty mainstream to me. Lot of VAXEN up there; not many 3b1s.
So now, what's all this about the groups being hard-to-get?
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