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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
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Subject: Re: new newsgroups?
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 20:28:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 20:28:41 1987
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Those newsgroups are all in the "inet" distribution.  "inet" started
as being for those sites which are on the Internet... they all match
up with a mailing list which is in the List of Lists.  We are intending
to replace "mailing list technology" with "newsgroup technology" by
weight of numbers.

What is happening is that Erik Fair is making subscriptions to all of
the mailing lists he finds out about, and have the subscription end
up posting an article to some newsgroup with Distribution: inet in
the article.  The newsgroups are also placed in the normal newsgroup
hierarchy to "reduce confusion".  But there's currently no easy way
for people at sites which receive the inet distribution to tell that
a particular newsgroup is IN the inet distribution.  So, new postings
at sites have "world" distribution, or maybe "na" or "usa" or some
such.  These new postings go everywhere, even to sites who don't get
the inet distribution.

Nowadays these newsgroups go to more places that those who are are
on the Internet.  And there's no problem with that either ... Also
I suppose that if there is general interest then we could convert
some of these newsgroups to normal newsgroups.


Oh, the "we" of the people handling the "inet" distribution are those
Scurvey Members of the Internet Backbone Cabal.  (I really did see
somebody refer to us in those kind of terms ..).  If you're on the
internet and want to do NNTP, send mail to nntp-managers-request
at ucbarpa.berkeley.edu ...
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<---- David Herron,  Local E-Mail Hack,  david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet
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<---- I thought that time was this neat invention that kept everything
<---- from happening at once.  Why doesn't this work in practice?