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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What are bit.listserv.* groups for?
Message-ID: <328@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 90 06:39:46 GMT
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In article <4624@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> tommyk@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
	(Tommy Kelly) writes:
>What are bit.listserv groups for?  They seem to duplicate other groups?

LISTSERV is how BITNET sites handle large mailing lists.
bit.listserv is a translation into usenet semantics to take
advantage of netnews' propagation efficiency and storage economy.
I don't expect non-NNTP sites to carry bit.listserv, it's huge.

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