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Subject: Re: Re: The Great Net Cleanup Part II
Message-ID: <190@ho95e.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 19:33:56 EDT
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> In article <424@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> < 
> < We have several hundred K of these empty directories. I would like to see a few
> < groups combined... like for example info-term (which is mostly requests for
> < termcap entries) and net.unix, a place where such requests are more likely
> < to be noticed. ....
> 
> It is precisely BECAUSE net.info-terms is a separate newsgroup from net.unix
> that requests in there get noticed and responded to. If requests in there
> were posted to net.unix, they would never be seen due to the swamped
> situation in that other newsgroup. I've responded to many requests for
> termcap or terminfo entries that I may have never seen if they had been
> posted to net.unix.
> > 					Tony Hansen pegasus!hansen

Also, there are ARPANET gateway issues; net.unix postings go to INFO-UNIX,
and I think net.info terms postings go to INFO-TERMS?  Traffic from the Arpa
side to UNIX is easy to join, but the UNIX-Arpa direction requires two separate
groups for the two mailing lists.
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## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs