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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.groups,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: unix-pc.* newsgroups
Message-ID: <1049@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 13:26:00 GMT
References: <3764@islenet.UUCP> <164@flatline.UUCP> <3788@islenet.UUCP>
Reply-To: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Organization: AT&T, Winston-Salem, NC
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In article <3788@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
>
>After getting a large enough number of favorable responses from the
>net in support of such a move, one or more news admins could add a
>line like the following to their /usr/lib/news/aliases file:
>
>unix-pc.general	comp.sys.att


These points have already been made by others, but I think they're
worth reiterating:

	1.  You can always cross-post to comp.sys.att, and many
	    people do.

	2.  A lot of the people on the current unix-pc.* net
	    do NOT have access to comp.sys.att and would lose
	    their source of information if the unix-pc.* groups
	    were swallowed by The Greater Usenet.

>And the distribution of the 
>unix-pc.* groups can't help but be much less than that available
>though the mainstream Usenet.

Not given the option of cross-posting.
And the *combined* distribution is greater than that available
only thru the mainstream Usenet ...


Kathy Vincent ------> {ihnp4|mtune|codas|ptsfa}!bakerst!kathy