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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: proposed new distribution category
Message-ID: <285@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 06:45:15 GMT
References: <757@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <4379@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <4379@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
}In article <757@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes:
}>This would permit news traffic which is too commercial for
}>Internet sites to be sent world-wide without using the
}>Internet links.
}
}   There already is such a hierarchy. It's called "biz". Internet sites
}are not the only ones for whom some traffic is "too commercial", although
}it's getting to be that way as more and more "research" sites connect to
}NSFnet.
}

Only the original suggestion was for a "distribution" not a new news
hierarchy.

Big difference (even though distributions havn't been all that widely observed
in the past).

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