Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call of votes - sci.aquaria and Europe Summary: Yes we do get rec. in Europe Message-ID: <2341@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 18 Oct 89 18:35:53 GMT References: <20986@gryphon.COM> <20988@gryphon.COM> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "David Wright" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 34 In article <20988@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: #Some articles in alt.aquaria belong in a rec group, some #articles belong in a sci group. # #Whats the difference ? It turns out that sci goes to Europe #and rec, for the most part, doesn't. No longer true: ALL rec (and misc and alt) groups available on uunet now go to Europe. We even get the talk groups. As this is a recent development (it's as a result of the Eunet gateway at Amsterdam having been given a new news gateway host, name of mcsun, which can handle the load), you cannot be sure that all countries and sites have decided to accept all groups yet, (and ukc has decided not to take alt.sex and alt.drugs in case the Murdocks* hear about it and their funding source gets upset). Hopefully the areas which don't yet take everything will be able to soon. Germany, with its very high comms costs, will probably not take everything, but hopefully most countries will. #Now, this is probably for a reason, ie. they don't want the #volume, which is understandable. Precisely: if sites have decided that they cannot afford certain areas of discussion, then the rest of us may well regret that, but should respect their decisions, not try to bypass them. P.S. In case you haven't guessed, I think sci.aquaria would be a bad mistake. *Murdock: a populist and usually nasty apology for a newspaper. Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW Living in a country without a written constitution means having to trust in the Good Will of the Government and the Generosity of Civil Servants.