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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems (actually prod-support newsgroup)
Message-ID: <611@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 18:18:53 GMT
References: <3101@phri.UUCP> <1499@codas.att.com> <5411@zen.berkeley.edu> <275@cutsys.UUCP>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
Lines: 26
Summary: Creating product support groups.

In article <275@cutsys.UUCP>, cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt ) writes:
> [ ... deleted for brevity [
> many systems are not going to want to pay for propogation of articles
> that could benefit a competitor, [ ... deleted for brevity ]

There is no reason for anyone to worry about that.  Support we
created a group "comp.support.telebit".  Naturally, US Robotics
would not want to pay to carry that.  Simple: They can do this now
with the news sys file.  Already we have some backbone sites
saying they won't carry "talk.*".  They do it like this:

     backbone:control,news,comp,soc,sci,rec,misc,!talk:

US Robotics would look like this:

     usr:control,news,comp,...,!comp.support.telebit:

Only the news admin at US Robotics need make this change -
everyone else continues as is.

The product support groups would be a great value for the money
spent transmitting them.  I think we should create them now.

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