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From: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Posting of 2.10.3 "problems"
Message-ID: <214@pyramid.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 03:36:09 EST
Article-I.D.: pyramid.214
Posted: Mon Mar 24 03:36:09 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 05:16:56 EST
References: <194@daemen.uucp> <1958@saber.UUCP> <2958@amdahl.UUCP>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
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Summary: Beta or not, 2.10.3 Netnews is widespread

>> I've been noticing a lot of 2.10.3 problem reports in this newsgroup.
>> As far as I know 2.10.3 is still in beta test.  Given that, please
>> keep these problem reports out of this group so that
>> ...
>> 2.  the group isn't cluttered with stuff that only a small fraction
>>     of the readership care about right now.
>
>I agree.  I think the 2.10.3 folks need a mailing list, and I wonder
>why this didn't occur to someone before.
>seems obvious.

It's actually alpha; Rick won't be posting the "official" beta version for
a few (days? weeks?) yet. Still, as much as I respect you guys, I have to
disagree....

The "small fraction of the readership" using 2.10.3 is actually quite large
and growing rapidly, including much of the backbone. See seismo's posting of
current news versions for verification. I claim that given the installed base
of 2.10.3 sites and the location of those sites, the net as a whole benefits
from these postings. A mailing list would be difficult, in part because the
number of 2.10.3 sites is growing very rapidly.

A curiosity: in the San Francisco Bay Area, the majority of sites that post
(I'm serious, more than 50%) and 2/3 of the BA backbone are running various
flavors of 2.10.3....
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