Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Suggestions for a new backbone (was: Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc.) Message-ID: <1138@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 24 Oct 88 04:41:55 GMT References: <5178@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <8187@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <17793@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 9 In article <17793@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes: >The system worked. In a few weeks, someone will surely kill "alt.next" as >redundant, and the process will be complete. Sure... and the 20% of the sites that are stupid enough to let any bozo on the net remove groups from their systems won't have it any more. Of course, getting the rest of us to remove the group manually is virtually impossible. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov