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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: news.software.c
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.234411.11660@rpi.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 23:44:11 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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The programmers of C News have stated more than once that they do not
wish to see a news.software.b formed; this of course would not prevent
the group from being formed, but it is a good thing to keep in mind.

A few months ago their was a dual-pronged proposal to create
news.software and bag news.software.b.  I am in favour of such a
course of action, but there are logistical problems with nuking
groups.  It doesn't happen as well as we would hope.

The various news software systems that get discussed are often inter-
related, usually because of different methodology.  I personally would
like to follow all of the traffic which would appear in a news.software
group but I understand that many admins at smaller leaf sites just want
to follow the articles about the software which they are running.
Since so much of it is steeped in history, though, I would expect to
still see a lot of crossposting between the .nntp, .c and .b groups.

Dave
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