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From: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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Subject: Re: Fusion newgroup proposal
Message-ID: <937@zorch.UU.NET>
Date: 6 Apr 89 16:27:27 GMT
References: <910@zorch.UU.NET> <546@cvman.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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In article <546@cvman.UUCP> gdelong@cvman.UUCP (Gary Delong) writes:  [edited]
>Many sites (including mine) do not carry the alt.* groups.  While I appreciate
>your offer to provide a digest of the discussion via e-mail, I already find
>myself gritting my teeth over just the normal USENET propogation delay.
>There is a discussion going in sci.physics, which would seem to be a
>reasonable place.  (If this is not a physics discussion, then I don't
>know what it would take to qualify as one.)
[This was edited down...]

At this point, alt.fusion is a fait accompli.  I appreciate your concern
over the timeliness of the mailing list, having spent the first portion of
my time on the net at the end of a long and slow forwarding chain.  However,
I felt and still feel that the manner in which the discussion was scattered
all over the net justified the creation of a newsgroup for most/all fusion
discussion.

As far as the group being an alt group goes, the whole purpose of alt is
to encourage news admins to explicitly pick and choose which groups they
receive.  I'm sorry that your site does not carry alt, but if the contents
of alt.fusion are important enough to you, I strongly recommend finding a
way to receive it.  I have been told that the news admin of mcvax is
considering picking up alt.fusion to supply to the rest of Europe; while
alt.* is sometimes considered to be a sewer, this shows that at least
one experienced administrator is willing to be flexible.  I am sure that
an alt feed should be available should you wish to look for one, and as
always, my offer to mail the contents of alt.fusion stands.

I have redirected followups on this topic to news.groups, where we can
divert ourselves from discussing Brad and moderation with a renewal of
the cycle of discussion on alt vs. the mainstream...
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