robert@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Evans) (06/13/90)
British readers are able to receive biz.dec and biz.dec.ip. Biz newsgroups have been carried by the UK backbone, the University of Kent at Canterbury (ukc) for over a year. There was a problem with biz.dec[.ip] because mcsun (the European backbone) had not created the groups. (Nothing to do with it being mcSUN I suppose :-) ). This information comes from Ian Harding (news@ukc.ac.uk), the UKnet news person, and is therefore authoritative. Sites should ensure that they have the biz entry in their sys file, e.g. cf-cm:cs,world,alt,inet,comp,sci,news,rec,soc,talk,misc,eunet,uk,net,mod,usrgroup,gnu,bionet,unix-pc,bit,biz,pubnet,to:: The following biz groups are known at Kent: biz.clarinet 00021 00021 y biz.clarinet.sample 01689 01630 y biz.comp.hardware 00028 00028 y biz.comp.services 00007 00007 y biz.comp.software 00016 00016 y biz.comp.telebit 00028 00028 y biz.config 00009 00009 y biz.control 00000 00000 y biz.dec 00000 00001 y biz.dec.ip 00000 00001 y biz.misc 00017 00017 y biz.stolen 00000 00000 y biz.test 00027 00027 y Hm. We also have this group here in Cardiff, biz.dec.workstations 0000000000 0000000001 y I'll send a query back to Ian about that.