tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) (10/26/89)
In article <980@tub.UUCP> net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes: >Although the European backbone site is importing all international newsgroups >since recently, it is highly unlikely that more than a few national European *************** >backbones will ever get all the groups (especially the rec.* groups). **** I have to disagree with that. I don't even think it will take very long before they all get everything. Actually I'd like to know what the situation is at the moment: which countries get what? So far we've been told that * Scandinavia gets everything, as does Holland (obviously, since the European backbone resides there). * UK gets everything but alt.sex and alt.drugs (deliberately censored by UK backbone). * Germany gets nothing much (especially not rec.*). What I don't know is whether there is a policy decision to get all sci.* groups but no rec.* groups in UNIDO and/or various local organizations - any Germans wanting sci.aquaria because then they didn't have to ask for rec.aquaria explicitly (and let their employer/whoever know what's going on)? How about other countries? -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)