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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: news.groups,eunet.news.group
Subject: Re: Call of votes - sci.aquaria and Europe
Message-ID: <1831@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 26 Oct 89 10:08:34 GMT
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Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
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In article <980@tub.UUCP> net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:

>Although the European backbone site is importing all international newsgroups
>since recently, it is highly unlikely that more than a few national European
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>backbones will ever get all the groups (especially the rec.* groups).
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I have to disagree with that.  I don't even think it will take very long
before they all get everything.

Actually I'd like to know what the situation is at the moment:
which countries get what?  So far we've been told that
* Scandinavia gets everything, as does Holland (obviously, since the
  European backbone resides there).
* UK gets everything but alt.sex and alt.drugs (deliberately censored
  by UK backbone).
* Germany gets nothing much (especially not rec.*).  What I don't
  know is whether there is a policy decision to get all sci.* groups
  but no rec.* groups in UNIDO and/or various local organizations -
  any Germans wanting sci.aquaria because then they didn't have
  to ask for rec.aquaria explicitly (and let their employer/whoever
  know what's going on)?

How about other countries?

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)