spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (10/07/84)
I have been told that the Arpa net news for the Apollo workstation
gets gatewayed into both fa.apollo and net.works.apollo. Is this so?
If it is the case, then I will be issuing a "rmgroup" on fa.apollo
within the next two weeks -- there is no need to have the same
things continually posted to two separate newsgroups.
If I receive *NO* mail on this subject, I will assume that the
fa.apollo newsgroup is redundant, and I will delete it.
--
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-sally}!gatech!spaffair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (10/08/84)
There are exactly two sites doing gateway duty for the `fa' groups
at present. They are:
uw-beaver: fa.info-mac (Thank you, Richard Furuta)
ucbvax: fa.human-nets (Everything else goes through here)
fa.telecom
fa.info-vax
fa.info-vlsi
(s'more I can't remember off hand)
fa.info-cpm traffic was my fault; I turned it on and *then* noticed
that sri-unix is gatewaying it into net.micro.cpm. I asked the
moderators of INFO-CPM to turn off the Berkeley posting alias three
weeks ago. They did so one week ago. If you still have fa.info-cpm on
your system, remove it, because no futher traffic on that newsgroup is
forthcoming from Berkeley.
fa.apollo is probably dead (and certainly redundant with
net.works.apollo), (why isn't there a net.works.sun?) and so far as I
know, I'm not gatewaying anything into it.
Now, for the kicker: Occasionally in this newsgroup, the ARPA INTERNET
List of Lists is posted. This is the definitive list of mailing lists,
digests and other things on the ARPA INTERNET. Go read it, and then
MAIL me a note about which groups you would be interested in reading as
`fa.' Remember that `fa' groups are read-only, in the sense that if
you wish to reply to the author of a particular item, or to the mailing
list as a whole, you have to MAIL your response to the return address
in the header of the netnews article (typically an alias on ucbvax
pointing to the mailing list). Also, I find that `fa' groups are best
used for digests (moderated ARPANET mailing lists with one posting per
day) rather than direct distribution mailing lists (like USENET).
I will, at some future date when the requests stop pouring in,
summarize the list of requested ARPANET groups in a posting to this
newsgroup, and we can debate on the relative merits of various ARPANET
mailing lists, and what we should call them here in bangland.
fair enough?
Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA
dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA
{ihnp4,ucbvax,hplabs,decwrl,cbosgd,sun,nsc,apple,pyramid}!dual!fair
Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California
P.S. Will someone at SRI-UNIX.ARPA please mail me a list of the ARPANET
groups that you are gatewaying into net.* groups and the mappings?