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Bruce D. Becker
bdb at becker.UUCP
Thu May 9 02:56:03 AEST 1991
In article <1991May7.221933.15763 at ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols at ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) writes:
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| He may never see your response, if he's looking in 'unix-pc.*'. If
|it passes through even ONE site running B-news which has 'unix-pc.*' aliased
|to 'comp.sys.3b1', your newsgroup line will get mangled to 'comp.sys.3b1'.
|See the Newsgroups: line from your article as seen at my site.
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| Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
|
| I responded to him by e-mail (if it doesn't get bounced by some
|site along the way :-) to explain the situation (including the newsgroup
|change by aliasing) to him.
|
| Isn't it about time to turn off the aliasing now? Then we can not be
|bothered by these postings. (Is there anyone out there who still NEEDS
|'unix-pc.*' to get their news?)
I have never aliased "unix-pc" newsgroups to
"comp.*.3b1" for that reason; there are still
folks out there who use them. I don't think
they are getting the very best informational
deal, but I also don't think it's my right
to mess with their usage.
I don't think it's a good idea therefore to
rmgroup the "unix-pc" newsgroups; like the old
joke goes, "don't worry, it fall off by itself"...
--
,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario
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