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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestions for a new backbone (was: Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc.)
Message-ID: <2595@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 88 16:07:57 GMT
References: <5178@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <8187@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <17793@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1138@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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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.  

In article <1138@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
>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.

And sites that think it's ridiculous to have to read two groups to get
all the NeXT articles will just add

alt.next     comp.sys.next

to their alias file, and those who stubbornly insist on alt.next will
find their group drying up.  Of course they could put the reversed
alias in THEIR alias file.  Alias wars, anyone?


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