mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (09/08/86)
Newgroup messages for the talk newsgroups have been sent out. The old and new names for these newsgroups are: net.abortion talk.abortion net.bizarre talk.bizarre net.origins talk.origins net.philosophy talk.philosophy.misc net.politics talk.politics.misc net.politics.theory talk.politics.theory net.religion talk.religion.misc net.rumor talk.rumors Note in particular that net.religion becomes talk.religion.misc, NOT talk.religion. We are sorry for this inconvenience, since talk.religion has already been created and is in use. Backbone hosts will be installing alias files to convert the old names over to the new names. As of around October 1, the backbone will stop forwarding the old names. We expect to rmgroup the old "net" groups listed above on that date. Readers are urged to read both sets of newsgroups. The traffic should die down in the net groups over the next month. Posters are urged to begin posting to the new names. If you are following up a message in the old group, edit the name in the Newsgroups: line to use the new name. If for some reason your machine isn't receiving the talk groups, ask your netnews administrator to look into it. The news admin should check upstream to find out who isn't passing them along, and get the appropriate system or systems to fix the problem. There are still some pockets of the net that aren't getting everything, but the bulk of the net seems OK now. This is the first stage of the newsgroup reorganization. Additional classes will be converted over similarly over the next several months. Mark Horton