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From: hbo@hub.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: What's with comp.sys.amiga.tech?
Message-ID: <571@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 88 19:25:04 GMT
Reply-To: hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen)
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
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Summary: Is this just a local phenomenon after all?


   I recently had the following exchange of messages with the administrator
of my newsfeed. I wonder if anyone else is having difficulty receiving 
comp.sys.amiga.tech? His reply (+) follows my question (++).

++     The comp.sys.amiga  group  on  usenet recently  spawned  a  .tech
++     child.   I was  happily reading  this new  group,  congratulating
++      myself that the news  administrator at my site  was so on top  of
++     new developments  on the  net  that he  was carrying  .tech  well
++     before the group had  official status.  I  felt even better  when
++     the net.gods spoke,  and comp.sys.amiga.tech was  invested as  an
++     official usenet news group.  The cross posting to  comp.sys.amiga
++     dropped  off  considerably,  and  reading  .tech  became   really
++     worthwhile.  Imagine  my horror  when one evening  rn greeted  me
++     with "bogus newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.tech" and then proceeded  to
++     check out my .newsrc  file for 10 minutes,  (grr) I was  shocked!
++     So my question, Mr.  usenet administrator person, is this: can we
++     resurrect comp.sys.amiga.tech?  I'm desperate to keep up with the
++     developing standards  for Amiga  interprocess communication,  the
++     details of the Fast File System and OS 1.3 and the endless flames
++     about "keeping this fluff out  of .tech!" Thanks a bunch, 

+On 20 April an  rmgroup control message was  sent out across  the
+usenet  which  automatically  removed  the  "comp.sys.amiga.tech"
+group from  all sites.    These are  common messages  which  come
+through every week or so telling our news system to clean up  its
+act -- they originate at the mythical "backbone" sites which have
+been exerting pressure on the usenet in recent months.
+
+In any case, the newsgroup is gone  and we have not the power  to
+resurrect it.
+
+Sorry,
+Tom


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