Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:3264 comp.sys.att:6941 news.admin:6223 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,news.admin Subject: Re: Too much cross-posting? Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 89 13:39:44 GMT References: <674@whizz.uucp> <171@zebra.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Bob Sutterfield Followup-To: unix-pc.general Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 20 In-reply-to: vern@zebra.UUCP's message of 6 Jul 89 10:42:10 GMT In article <171@zebra.UUCP> vern@zebra.UUCP (Vernon C. Hoxie) writes: I also would like to know why distribution of the unix-pc group is so difficult to come by. I have been trying for the last year to get it here. You're welcome to a feed of unix-pc if you're willing to call Columbus, Ohio regularly - 1200, 2400, or TB+. Most other unix-pc sites are happy to offer feeds as well. It's not that hard to come by, you just didn't ask widely enough. I have been wondering about suggesting that the group names be changed so that it starts with 'comp.xxxx'. Since this is already an entry in the '/usr/lib/news/sys' file, we could all benefit. If you want to create new newsgroups in the standard heirarchy, you'll need to propose them and hold a vote, as usual. I suspect they won't succeed, since there's already a thriving unix-pc distribution available to everyone who wants it. Changing distributions just to achieve wider coverage is generally frowned upon.