Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Isn't this group supposed to be for Bnews?
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.224500.20696@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 22:45:00 GMT
References: <2202@cssinc.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <2202@cssinc.UUCP> jim@cssinc.UUCP (Jim McCorison) writes:
>Being relatively new to the net I may have missed some historical aspect of
>this group, but isn't it supposed to be for Bnews discussion? It currently seems
>to be dominated by Cnews.

The current interpretation is that it's for B-compatible news discussion.
A couple of attempts to create a news.software.c have failed, mostly because
it is, frankly, a dumb idea.  The issues are very often common to both, and
there isn't enough B-specific traffic to justify a separate B News group.
What would be more sensible would be to rename it to news.software.transport,
which would make its broader meaning more explicit.
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