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From: abc@BRL.ARPA (Brint Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: [jetzer: Re: comp.binaries.apple2 is HERE!!!]
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Date: 18 Apr 88 02:54:24 GMT
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Mike Jetzer writes:

> Several people have declared that comp.binaries.apple2 is "here," but we
> aren't getting it here at Marquette U.  Could anybody enlighten me as to
> why we don't get it?

	comp.binaries.apple2 is a Usenet news group.  It is not a
mailing list.  For this group to be available, your site must receive
Usenet News.  This news is most usually distributed among Unix systems
over dial-up telephone lines using the UUCP (Unix to Unix CoPy) routines
available under Unix.  

	Many Unix sites are connected to the rest of the world only by
their telephones and by the UUCP programs.  Users at such sites do not
receive Info-Apple; they read the News group "comp.sys.apple."  The
connection between Info-Apple and comp.sys.apple is explicitly made at
Berkeley.

	comp.binaries.apple2 was created because, for reasons that I
don't understand, APPLE2-L cannot reach UUCP-only sites from BROWNVM on
the Bitnet.  

	Everything sent to APPLE2-L will be "posted" to
comp.binaries.apple2.  HOWEVER, I am not sure that things posted first
to comp.binaries.apple2 will get to APPLE2-L.  If this capability is
made to happen, then comp.binaries.apple2 and APPLE2-L will carry
exactly the same traffic, just as Info-Apple and comp.sys.apple do now.

	I hope that this clears up what seem to be a large number of questions.

_Brint