Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!woods
From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: proposed new distribution category
Message-ID: <4386@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 89 16:54:23 GMT
References: <757@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <4379@ncar.ucar.edu> <285@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <285@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>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". 

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

  I stand corrected, but there is no functional difference. "biz" still 
fulfills the suggestion and it already exists. It is still a duplication
of effort.

--Greg