[news.groups] Isn't it about time for news.software.c?

leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley) (07/15/89)

% egrep ^news.software ~news/newsgroups
news.software.b         Discussion about B-news-compatible software.
news.software.nntp      The Network News Transfer Protocol.
news.software.notes     Notesfile software from the Univ. of Illinois.

	I know that Cnews is B news compatible, but shouldn't we create a new
group (news.software.c) so that those of us that run the crufty old stuff can
still cling together for support?

Scott Leadley
Newsadmin for Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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					Scott Leadley - leadley@cc.rochester.edu

karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (07/15/89)

In article <2495@ur-cc.UUCP> leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
(Scott Leadley) wrote:

>	I know that Cnews is B news compatible, but shouldn't we create a new
>group (news.software.c) so that those of us that run the crufty old stuff can
>still cling together for support?

Many of the people who understand B news best are now running, or will
soon be running, C news.  You may well get more help from a combined group.

	Chuck Karish		{decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish
	(415) 493-7277		karish@forel.stanford.edu