[can.general] newsgroup proposal: can.inet

mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) (07/12/87)

There is a mailing list in existence for discussing the extension of
the US ARPA Internet into Canada.  This list has been running for some
time, and it occurred to me that it would be reasonable to gateway it
into normal usenet newsgroups, presumably under `can'.  Does anyone
have any strong feelings one way or the other?  If not, or if the
feeling seems to be one of approval, I will probably set up gateway
software to forward things both ways (assuming, of course, that I don't
hear too much in the way of screams from my suggestion to this effect
on the mailing list).  I was thinking of setting up a moderated group,
the moderator address being the mailing list, with stuff from the
mailing list being fed into usenet here at mcgill-vision (here rather
than at the source because the source is at MIT and hence can't feed
stuff into can-distribution newsgroups).

Name?  Well, the list is called can-inet and it has two ancillary lists
can-inet-hackers and can-inet-sources; I would suggest can.inet,
can.inet.hackers, and can.inet.sources.  Good?  Bad?  Comments?

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)