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From: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call of votes - sci.aquaria and Europe
Message-ID: <980@tub.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:42:54 GMT
References: <20986@gryphon.COM> <20988@gryphon.COM> <2341@stl.stc.co.uk> <5922@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <5922@tank.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
> Now that at least three people from three different European countries
> have corrected Richard Sexton's misunderstanding about the distribution
> of rec.all, the question is, will he drop his advocacy for the name
> under sci?

Although the European backbone site is importing all international newsgroups
since recently, it is highly unlikely that more than a few national European
backbones will ever get all the groups (especially the rec.* groups).  Most
national backbones do not (yet?) have a leased line to the European backbone;
they are running UUCP or IP over public PSDN connections (which is expensive).

Thus, the situation hasn't changed a lot here.

Regards,
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Oliver Laumann              net@TUB.BITNET              net@tub.UUCP