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From: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general,news.groups
Subject: Re: Compromise on comp.sys.att/unix-pc.* merge
Keywords: gateway, comp.sys.att, unix-pc
Message-ID: <2866@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 88 20:08:02 GMT
References: <394@zorch.UU.NET>
Reply-To: emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh)
Organization: Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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In article <394@zorch.UU.NET> scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
>I've been following the discussion on merging the unix-pc net into the main
>Usenet with some interest now.

...


>I think that it is possible to come up with a compromise that would be
>satisfactory to both groups of people.  The creation of a gateway from the
>unix-pc net into comp.sys.att would make postings from the former available
>to all the sites that get the latter without requiring posters to explicitly
>crosspost or requiring their sites to carry both groups.  It would also
>ensure greater propagation and readership of the unix-pc networks.

Right off the top of my head, I can think of one thing wrong with it.  This
would add to the duplication found in comp.sys.att.  Any article that is
posted to unix-pc would make the round there, then after you gateway (I
never knew gateway was a verb :-) it to comp.sys.att, it would make the
rounds there.  I can't see how that could have any positive effects.

unix-pc is one corner of USENET that is working with a minimum of fuss --
let's leave it that way.

-- 
Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
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