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From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Moderated group aliases
Message-ID: <34@gnome6.pa.dec.com>
Date: 3 Nov 88 23:55:07 GMT
References: <10519@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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# With the demise of the backbone, what is the status of the former
# group of sites that maintained aliases for the moderated groups?
# 
# Did they die with the backbone? If so, what is the future of
# moderated groups to be when these aliases start getting out
# of date?

Nope.  Spaf still maintains the list of group -> mailling address translations
and still mails it out to approximately the same group of sites.  He also sends
out the "how to construct a mailpaths file" article every month or so, which
includes a list of the sites he mails the aliases to.  Decwrl is on that list,
which is how I know all of this...

Whichever site you've been using for "backbone" in your mailpaths file will
continue to work even though the name "backbone" is somewhat meaningless..
-- 
Paul Vixie
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