phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (10/22/85)
Now that UCB has converted its gatewaying of the fa.* groups to mod.*
groups, I see that Stanford is gatewaying fa.*. This means I get all
the ARPA mailing lists twice. I don't think I like this.
Would it be asking too much to have only one gateway? I thought most
of the people involved in the USENET backbone had agreed the mod.*
idea was acceptable. Stanford disagreed and was going to keep getting
the lists in the fa.* form. But now they are leaking out into the rest
of USENET, which is undesirable.
Can we come to a consensus on this matter? Or are Stanford and
Berkeley going to fight it out regardless of the impact on the rest of
the USENET community?
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ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.comreid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (10/22/85)
>Can we come to a consensus on this matter? Or are Stanford and >Berkeley going to fight it out regardless of the impact on the rest of >the USENET community? Sorry, this was a 1-keystroke typo on my part when I went to edit our sys files so that the new mod groups don't get passed through. I hadn't noticed it, but upon reading your message I found and fixed the "fa" leak. We have been gatewaying the "fa" stuff for a couple of years, and have always in the past managed to contain it; the complexity arose because Berkeley is not gatewaying fa.risks, and we are, and I had to make sure that fa.risks got out and the others didn't, and I blew it. Sorry. (Please let me know soon if this fix doesn't work) -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
tp@ndm20 (11/01/85)
I'd rather see the fa.* groups until Erik Fair fixes the names. As I
said in an article on net.news.groups, I get all mod.computers.* in
one group and all mod.protocols.* in another. This will be true of
all non-4.2 sites running notes (correct me if I'm wrong). The
problem is that the entire name of the group is the name of one
directory to hold that notesfile, and on many systems that name is
limited to 14 characters. Notes does not use the one directory per
name component scheme the way news does. So I have mod.computers.vax
(since it got here first), which contains mod.computers.* and
mod.protocols.tcp-ip which contains mod.protocols.* I have no
indication other than content which group a given message belongs to.
I don't care if the name is longer than 14 characters, but PLEASE
make it UNIQUE in the first 14 characters. This shouldn't be at all
difficult. I support the idea of the mod.* groups instead of fa.*
(even though I can't make use of it myself, not having had the chance
to install Rich Salz' notes mod to properly handle posting to mod.*
groups).
Any flames about my choice of news interface/version of unix would be
most inappropriate. The point is that people use these systems (a
LOT of people, see mod.newslists, and many have no choice in the
matter) and they should be supported. I don't think Erik is trying
to screw all SysV/SysIII/V7 users just because he works for Berkely,
and I can see how the combination of notes/non-4.2 would not occur to
someone running news/4.2, but PLEASE correct the situation as soon as
possible. (Luckily I have no down stream sites, so the problem is
confined to my site. But we have been toying with the idea of
getting a redundant feed to increase news reliability in this area.
If that occurs, then all this stuff will get cross posted on the
whole net the way it occurs on my site. I'll bet it gets fixed fast
when mod.protocols.kermit starts echoing a week or so later in
mod.protocols.tcp-ip. That is where my system gets the articles.)
Thanks,
Terry Poot
Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers
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