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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTE, COMP.INTERNET.ADDR AND COMP.INTERNET
Message-ID: <3716@phri.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 14:57:21 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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netnews@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Robert M. Sklar) writes:
> I am making a proposal that a Internet group [actually 2 groups] be created.

	First, the manditory technical quibble -- there hasn't been any
discussion about this yet, so it's premature to call for a vote.

> comp.internet	General Internet related discussions of interest

	A lot of this sort of thing already goes on in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.
You could argue that this is the wrong place, but I havn't seen people
screaming that talking about stuff that isn't strictly related to the tcp-ip
protocol doesn't belong there.

> comp.internet.addr - simular to comp.mail.maps where a monthly posting of
> the most up to date hosts table would be published and changed in Internet
> address can be posted throughout the month.

	Isn't this what the whole domain/nameserver system is all about, i.e.
that nobody should ever have to have a complete, up-to-date, host table?
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@phri.nyu.edu
"The connector is the network"