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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: inet newsgroup creation policy
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 07:03:45 EDT
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Bob, the policy for the "inet" groups is that whatever is in the
List of Lists as maintained by Rich Zellich becomes an "inet"
distribution group (plus whatever mailing list announcements I find
while reading the net myself), whenever I get around to looking at
it. Rich posted a 50% update about 6 weeks ago, pleaded incredible
overload at work, said that there were many more updates in the
queue (He does LoL in his "spare" time) and that he'd get back to
it when he had more time. I haven't heard anything since.

I also plead extreme disruption of my life for the last month and
a half (I just moved for the first time in six years; still unpacking)
and I'm finally beginning to clean out the backlog of stuff that's
in my "ToDo" file. I'm sure your two letters are safely ensconsed
in my mailbox, along with the 325 other letters in there that
require a magnum opus in response (I'd write back "RTFM" to half
of them, but in most cases there aren't any "FMs" for what they
ask), or some action on my part.

I just recently managed (after people have been pestering me for
the last two months) to repost the newgroups and a checkgroups
control message (which, much to my chagrin, disrupted systems all
over Europe and confused a lot of system admins. Piet Beertema was
not very happy with me), and get together a list of the addresses
of the moderators for the moderated "inet" groups. I still need to
make a pass over the existing groups and re-poke the mailing list
admins who still have not added the gateway to their lists; make
a pass over the "new" issue of the List Of Lists for more lists to
gateway (plus whatever I've come across in reading the lists that
I read), and finish the nntpxmit program for the NNTP 1.4 release
(yes, for those of you waiting on that, it's my fault that it's not
out yet). Oh, and then there are the updates to the Northern
California UUCP map...

Of course, if you want me to do something for you, it also helps if
spell my name right.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu