mark@cbosgd.UUCP (07/20/86)
Usenet will be reorganizing from two top level names (net and mod) into seven (comp, sci, news, misc, rec, soc, talk) over the next several months. All system administrators were supposed to make a change to their sys file to handle this by July 15. So far, a test sendsys message with distribution "comp" has generated 265 responses in 4 days. This is good, although there are probably still significant pockets of the net that aren't getting comp and the other six new distributions. This message was posted to newsgroup mod.announce with distribution "comp". If everything is working properly, you should see this message. A followup will be posted normally to mod.announce in a day or so. Please just remember that you saw this message, so you'll know things are OK when you see the next one. Mark Horton
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (07/21/86)
Usenet will be reorganizing from two top level names (net and mod) into seven (comp, sci, news, misc, rec, soc, talk) over the next several months. All system administrators were supposed to make a change to their sys file to handle this by July 15. So far, a test sendsys message with distribution "comp" has generated 265 responses in 4 days. This is good, although there are probably still significant pockets of the net that aren't getting comp and the other six new distributions. This message was posted to newsgroup mod.announce with no special distribution. This means everyone who gets mod.announce should get this message. Another message was posted a day ago to mod.announce with distribution "comp". You should have seen that message before this one. If you did not see that message, and it isn't waiting after this message in mod.announce, something is wrong. Please ask your netnews administrator to read net.news.adm for details. The final list of newsgroup names has not been determined yet. When we have a fairly solid list, we'll post it to net.news.group for brief public comment. That should be soon now. Mark Horton