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From: jra@jc3b21.UUCP (Jay R. Ashworth)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,news.misc
Subject: Re: Telebit Modems
Message-ID: <281@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 14:46:03 GMT
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In article <515@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
} there is another distribution being started this weekend here at 'ddsw1'
} for commercial-type postings. [...] The name of the top-level group is
} 'biz', and vendors may have their own group(s).

In article <3128@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) replies:
{ 	Uh, last I heard the top-level name was still being hashed out, and
{ biz was only one of several posibilities (others include com, cml, prod,
{ vendor, and I'm sure I missed a few).  Are we jumping the gun here?

Now, we all know that Roy is a great guy and all, and does a lot of good
works for the net.at.large.  Karl also kicks in his share of the
goodies.  Whence the conflict, then?  I think (in the immortal words
of--now, who the heck was that, anyway) that what we have here is a
failure to communicate.  The operative words, here, Roy, seem to be
"here at ddsw1".  The distribution Karl is talking about appears to be
something separate from any other (read: backbone supported?) commercial
distributions which may be in the works.

Whether this is due to Karl's obvious enthusiasm for the idea, or a
lack, somehow, of knowledge on his part that such a group was about to
be started on somebody else's part, I don't know.  But I'm not certain
it really matters, does it?  Since this tier of groups will--I
assume--be carried on demand only, like the alt.  subnet, by machines
who want to get it.  I doesn't seem to matter who starts it or where it
comes from, except for orthogonality reasons.  If there are other
reasons, aside from avoiding duplication, I'd like for someone to point
them out to me.

Understand, I can see that splitting commercial sub-groups amongst two
different namespaces in the domain (terminology?) could be a pain.  What
I don't understand is why, if Karl starts a distribution, another one
would be necessary--unless the backbones were planning on carrying it?

Just my $0.03 (inflation, y'know).
-- jra
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