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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: There isn't even a `backbone' alias any more
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Date: 30 Sep 88 16:18:39 GMT
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In-reply-to: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US's message of 30 Sep 88 02:32:39 GMT

wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner) writes:
   It strikes me that someone should start a new mailing list to replace
   the defunct backbone list; a "usenet admin" list open to any interested
   news administrators, not just those at the backbones.

I'm intending to.  But I'm inclined to make direct participation
(i.e., presence in the alias file) limited to news admins who handle a
fairly heavy newsfeed load, while making absolutely sure that the list
is not in any sense `private,' that is, I'll do something like post
summaries of recent traffic every N weeks.  That seemed to be one of
the biggest complaints about the old backbone list.  It'll probably be
called admin-news@one of my hosts.

I wouldn't want to be managing a mailing list which simply echoes
news.admin.  The traffic level would be too severe.

--Karl