Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: rmgroup comp.sys.masscomp
Message-ID: <4390@becker.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 90 13:44:37 GMT
References: <161@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1990Feb9.174809.15759@vicom.com> <169@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <169@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
|Some eight months ago, I as moderator of comp.sys.masscomp proposed in
|news.groups and comp.sys.masscomp to change the name to comp.sys.concurrent.
|This was to reflect that masscomp no longer exists as such since it merged
|with concurrent.
|
|I received many responses saying to do it and don't bother with a vote since
|it is a name change, not a new group.
|
|At that time, I did send out rmgroup and newgroup to make that happen. For
|some reason, the distribution mechanism failed and some parts of the country
|did not get the change. I received mail from folks asking me if the newsgroup
|was dead, etc. So, I decided to try the rmgroup/newgroup again.

	Probably B news sites ought to add the line

		"comp.sys.masscomp	comp.sys.concurrent"

	to your News "aliases" file, and C news sites
	do the analogous action in their "active" files.

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