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From: ralphw@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,news.groups
Subject: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac
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Date: 4 Apr 88 22:57:20 GMT
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Summary: NO to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac, go with comp.lang.cobol
Keywords:COBOL ENIAC


Well, such a group (for interesting stuff) already exists in the Internet side
of things. It's called INFO-COBOL.  Why not create comp.lang.cobol on the
USENET side (which would be even better from a bean-counter-point of view,
plus have some kind of correspondence with with already existing list.)

Some enterprising soul could set up a one-way link between the groups if
necessary (since I doubt the Internetters would want to put up with the 
trash from the USENET side, and the USENET types probably wouldn't put up
with 'moderation' anyway.)

Here's a copy of the mail I sent...  I wonder how many header-parsing
programs and news systems it will break?


Date: Mon, 4 Apr 88 18:42:38 EDT
From: Ralph.Hyre@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU
To: webber@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU
Subject: NO for comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac

It might be acceptable if the name were changed to comp.lang.cobol,
since there's an info-cobol (hack) mailing list in the Internet
which could be fed into comp.lang.cobol.

Thanks.
					- Ralph

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