acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (03/03/85)
[Do you know Kimball?]
Last week, I was wondering why there were still postings in net.music
concerning synthesizers, which, for organization's sake, belong in
net.music.synth. And someone else had asked the same thing, in a posting
to net.music.
("So why is this in net.general?", I hear you ask. The reason is that
this problem is not unique to net.music.)
Net.music is only one of the newsgroups that is gated to the ARPAnet; the
gateway is "INFO-MUSIC". Those on ARPAnet receiving the information have
no place to post followups, except to the parent group. (That is, unless
the subgroups are enabled at each of the ARPA sites.) Up until recently,
the net.music subgroups were mis-forwarded into net.music.
This is almost the same reason why postings about Star Trek and Doctor Who
still appear in net.sf-lovers when there are specific subgroups for them --
the gateway "SF-LOVERS" does not recognize net.startrek and net.tv.drwho
as subgroups of net.sf-lovers.
(I might be wrong about some parts of the gateway concept; I'm not at an
ARPAnet site. Perhaps Ron Natalie or Gene Spafford can elaborate further
on what is being forwarded, and how the gateways work.)
One last request: when posting to a high-volume newsgroup, PLEASE use
keywords (or a more specific "Subject:" line) to narrow down the intended
audience. It gets to be very time-consuming to wade through a number of
articles just to find one or two items of interest.
--
"Is there liver in reality?"
Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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