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From: randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: proposed new distribution category
Message-ID: <757@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Date: 18 Sep 89 17:38:50 GMT
Reply-To: randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson)
Followup-To: news.admin
Organization: Common Architecture Project, GE-Fanuc
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I'd like to propose that we consider creating a new distribution
category for news -- "uucpnet" which would be the UUCP sites'
counterpart to the Internet distribution "inet".

This would permit news traffic which is too commercial for
Internet sites to be sent world-wide without using the
Internet links.  Occasionally there is other traffic which
is of interest to the UUCP part of the net but would not 
be of interest to the Internet.

I realise that a number of sites would be both inet and
uucpnet sites, but there are also many sites that would
be inet and not uucpnet and even more that would be
uucpnet and not inet.

This is just an idea but please post reactions and we'll
see if folks think that this would be worthwhile to do...