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From: robert@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: biz.dec.* in the UK
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.172822.20583@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jun 90 17:28:22 GMT
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British readers are able to receive biz.dec and biz.dec.ip.  Biz newsgroups
have been carried by the UK backbone, the University of Kent at Canterbury
(ukc) for over a year.   There was a problem with biz.dec[.ip] because
mcsun (the European backbone) had not created the groups.  (Nothing to do
with it being mcSUN I suppose :-) ).

This information comes from Ian Harding (news@ukc.ac.uk), the UKnet news person,
and is therefore authoritative.

Sites should ensure that they have the biz entry in their sys file, e.g.
cf-cm:cs,world,alt,inet,comp,sci,news,rec,soc,talk,misc,eunet,uk,net,mod,usrgroup,gnu,bionet,unix-pc,bit,biz,pubnet,to::

The following biz groups are known at Kent:

biz.clarinet 00021 00021 y
biz.clarinet.sample 01689 01630 y
biz.comp.hardware 00028 00028 y
biz.comp.services 00007 00007 y
biz.comp.software 00016 00016 y
biz.comp.telebit 00028 00028 y
biz.config 00009 00009 y
biz.control 00000 00000 y
biz.dec 00000 00001 y
biz.dec.ip 00000 00001 y
biz.misc 00017 00017 y
biz.stolen 00000 00000 y
biz.test 00027 00027 y

Hm.  We also have this group here in Cardiff,
biz.dec.workstations 0000000000 0000000001 y
I'll send a query back to Ian about that.