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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: What *are* the can.* groups?
Message-ID: <8108@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 14:50:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 14:50:15 1987
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> 	The traffic seems so minimal maybe we should just drop the
>     can.* groups and use the can distribution.

There are three reasons not to do this.  One is that not all the can.all
groups correspond precisely to their network-wide counterparts.  Another
is that they flow by different routes -- this can be done with distributions,
but it's harder.  The third is that everybody understands newsgroup names
and almost nobody understands the exact workings of distributions, so there
is a serious user-interface problem there.
-- 
"There is only one spacefaring        Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
nation on Earth today, comrade."   {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry