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From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Something has to be done...
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Date: 11 Feb 90 13:42:00 GMT
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    Date: 9 Feb 90 22:40:52 GMT
    From: VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU!weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (weaver)

    In an article in comp.sys.atari.8bit, ACSCHW@SEMASSU.BITNET writes:

    >  I was very sorry to see the last message in the last digest about the
    >possible end of this group.

	    I did not read such a message, if it came from Usenet.  This
    is also being posted to news.admin in the hopes of an authoritative answer.
    Is this group coming to an end?  If so, what can we do about keeping it
    alive?  I think that there is enough (but not overmuch) traffic in this
    group to justify its existence.

What's coming to an end is the redistribution of the group to Internet
(and Bitnet?)  sites via the Info-Atari8 mailing list.  The problem is
not lack of interest, but lack of a host to handle the collecting up,
digestification, and remailing of messages.  It was done on
Score.Stanford.EDU until last year, when Score disappeared.  We then
moved to Simtel20, but they're pleading overloading, and are moving a
number of lists off that host.  We've had zero luck finding anyplace
else to handle the mailing list.  Unless we can find someone who's
willing to provide some machine time and disk space, and who's able to
send and receive internet mail, the mailing list will be discontinued.

Sorry guys, we've tried real hard to find an alternative, but there
seems to be none.