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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.announce
Subject: use of bell.all
Message-ID: <1310@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Apr-84 15:43:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1310
Posted: Sun Apr 29 15:43:32 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Apr-84 05:14:22 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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Approved: mark@cbosgd.UUCP

Scott Orshan of Bell Communications Research has asked me to remind
the network that AT&T and the world at large should no longer be using
the bell.all newsgroups.  These newsgroups now belong exclusively to
the 7 divested Regional Bell Operating Companies and to BCR.  He has
seen a lot of traffic with newsgroup lists like
	net.wanted,btl.wanted,bell.wanted
and this is blatantly in violation of the divestiture.

In fact, I would like to remind people that it is almost NEVER
appropriate to list more than one "*.wanted" newsgroup.  Either post
to net.wanted, or to att.wanted, or to bell.wanted, or if you have
something like a car or house for sale, restrict it locally with a
newsgroup like nj.wanted.  Almost all such abuse seems to originate
from within AT&T, for some reason.  AT&T employees should be especially
careful about misusing these newsgroups, since you don't want trouble
from Judge Green.

A reminder to all Usenet contacts - if your sys file still
mentions bell.all and you are not part of an RBOC or BCR, please
fix it now.

	Mark Horton