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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion -- comp.binaries.usenet-ps-maps
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.010709.17649@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 20 Nov 89 01:07:09 GMT
References: <48465@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <48465@bbn.COM> by mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard):
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| allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
| >I don't follow your statement that comp.mail.maps is name-space abuse:  it is
| >a newsgroup for the routing maps that make computer email possible (or at
| >least much easier).
| 
| But it is related to Usenet specifically, rather than computers in
| general.  And thus more properly belongs under news.*.
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Uh, no.  The Usenet != the UUCP mail network.  For one example, there are
sites which are listed in the mail maps which do not receive Usenet news
(example:  tdi2).  For another example, there are sites which pass news but
frown upon mail routing, the purpose of the maps (example: att).

The two domains overlap but are NOT equivalent; the maps do not belong in
news.all, but in the hierarchy for network-mail-oriented groups, which is
comp.mail.all.

++Brandon
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