Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!esrmm From: esrmm@warwick.ac.uk (Denis Anthony) Newsgroups: trial.soc.culture.italian Subject: Re: New newsgroups Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 14:26:46 GMT Article-I.D.: warwick.L0F_&X~ References: <1991May1.140826.15561@news.iastate.edu> <1991May1.174328.5976@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: clover In article <1991May1.174328.5976@agate.berkeley.edu> marchi@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu (Massimo Marchi) writes: >In article <1991May1.140826.15561@news.iastate.edu> vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes: >>We recently were able to get a feed for this group here at Iowa State. >>How long has the trial period been running? I haven't seen much traffic >>here, > >We Italians are a very hard working and quiet people. Where we do not >agree on some issue we agree to disagree. After few flares few months >ago, everybody went back to work as hard as ever on his/her small/big >project for life, pushing buttons on our wondrous keyboards and sipping >watery American coffee with renewed "gusto". As usual an irrelevant reply from M, the group has been running since just before Christmas. > >>but if other sites have to work to get a feed as we did, the >>group is not reaching a lot of places. > The trial period is for 5 months, and so will be up shortly, the usage of the group will be used as a criterion for acceptance as a "proper" group. The fact that not all sites gets a feed is, I am assured, taken into account. I do not imagine there will be a problem, as the group gets a fair bit of traffic, despite the problems of being "trial" status, which not all sites subscribe to. Hope this helps. Denis