Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!udel!cranor From: cranor@udel.EDU (Chuck Cranor) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: simple solution to inet leakage Message-ID: <596@louie.udel.EDU> Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 00:33:25 EDT Article-I.D.: louie.596 Posted: Fri Oct 16 00:33:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 11:28:23 EDT References: <683@pyrnj.uucp> <21290@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: cranor@udel.EDU (Chuck Cranor) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 22 In article <21290@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes: >Rick Adams is leading an effort to make most of the "inet" groups >into "real" USENET newsgroups which will cure the leak problem just >fine. Yeah, but it was a mistake to map these news groups into the main news group space in the first place. It's not fair to just dump inet stuff over the net with the wrong distribution. [and I'm not too keen on putting ! in my sys file for any non-inet neighbors, which they could ask me to do]. A better way to handle it is like the alt.* groups. I'm all for making inet mailing lists into news groups, but not by leaking articles all over the place - it's rude. Chuck -- Chuck Cranor University of Delaware PHONE: (302)-451-6660 (UDel), (302)-737-5852 (home) ARPA: cranor@udel.EDU, UUCP: ...!!udel.edu!cranor "I'd like to see John the Baptist's impersonation of Graham Hill." - R.J. Gumby