Xref: utzoo misc.misc:2100 news.misc:1043 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc Subject: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here" Message-ID: <605@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 29 Dec 87 00:20:16 GMT References: <202@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <793@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <2495@sfsup.UUCP> <603@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> <1987Dec27.015006.1547@sq.uucp> Reply-To: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) Organization: STL,Harlow,UK. Lines: 35 In article <1987Dec27.015006.1547@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes: #A response from England to complaints about posting poems about cats in #misc.misc reads in part: # #> You probably don't realise that the originator of the cat poems CAN'T post #> to only rec.arts.poems. This group is not available in the UK - in fact like #> many of the rec groups it doesn't come into Europe at all. ... #> So the Europeans either don't post poetry, or send it to the next best group # #No. So the Europeans either don't post poetry, or start their own poetry #group (or groups) with European distribution or less, or start another #transatlantic gateway. Well, transatlantic transmission is rather expensive, unless the cost is shared across all the sites served (as mcvax's transmission costs are - unlike most US sites we do pay a share of our backbone's costs - though I guess not enough to pay for bigger disks :-)). So while not impossible a second gateway is not practical. So that leaves either posting locally (e.g. to uk.general or eunet.general, due to the much lower traffic over here general/followup groups still exist and work quite well), or posting in misc.misc. Doesn't really matter to me, I don't post poems myself but I like to read them, which I'd be able to do in those groups, or in a uk.poems if we started one. But the option originally suggested, that European poem postings go to rec.arts.poems, is not possible. So if people outside Europe want to see such poems, the only sensible group is misc.misc. If not, then I guess you're right to say "Don't post". But the poems are much more interesting to a world-wide audience than the "Car for sale in NJ" or "Which college makes sport compulsory" or "Did you see XXX on TV" that fill much of misc.misc. Aren't they? -- Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW