dave@das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder) (11/29/90)
In article <33308@netnews.upenn.edu>, sobh@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Tarek M. Sobh) writes: > I would like to ask how can one "make" a UUCP site, in particular, I have > a PC and a modem, is it possible to have my home computer as a UUCP site ? > And some people want to know why "CFD: comp.sys.3b1" has been started when "unix-pc.general" is perfect. No offense Tarek, by any means! DAS -- David Snyder @ Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA UUCP: ..!uunet!trac2000!das13!dave INTERNET: dave@das13.snide.com
dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) (11/30/90)
It seems to me that one of the purposes of establishing a 7300/3b1 group would be unifying the various hierarchies so that a posting by someone on the unix-pc subnet can reach those who only receive a Usenet feed and vice versa. If the disjoint unix-pc hierarchy is maintained we have all the same problems just with different group names, very little has been gained. While the concept of a moderated sources groups may be interesting, is the corresponding unix-pc.sources going to become moderated also or just be gatewayed into the 3b1 group? Personally, I would rather see the various unix-pc groups gateway'ed into sys.3b1 or att.3b1 or sys.7300 or att.7300 or sys.3b1or7300 or whatever. I don't think the sources traffic is enough to require moderation. But if it is decided to go the moderated sources route I think it should be a unix-pc subnet/Usenet wide decision that applies across the entire net with the Usenet sources group being gateway'ed into unix-pc.sources and the other groups gateway'ed into the 3b1/7300 group. If the the single group concept is used then Usenet traffic would dump into unix-pc.general. If the split out sources is used then the sources would dump instead into unix-pc.sources. David Albrecht