bts@unc.UUCP (Bruce Smith) (02/21/84)
Len Tower's correct about the danger or over-loading USENET/-
ARPANET gateways. There are two options to be considered,
however, in addition to gating a mailing list to an fa.*
newsgroup:
(1) First of all, some sites communicate with ARPANET via
CSnet. That's how we do it at UNC. We have to pay for
this, however, depending on the traffic. CSnet doesn't
have anything quite like news yet, so CSnet/USENET
sites might not find out about the LIST-OF-LISTS except
via USENET's news. I should have mentioned this in the
original letter, sorry. (It may be that other networks
talk to both ARPA and USENET. Does anyone know about
this?)
(2) Sometimes there is already a USENET newsgroup which
would be appropriate for the mailing list. This
happened with net.lang.prolog and the PROLOG-DIGEST.
The USENET newsgroup was actually created first, and
for a while we were mailing it to ARPANET sites. Now,
someone at sri-unix has software which automatically
"undigestifies" the mailing list into separate articles
for net.lang.prolog.
_____________________________________
Bruce Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill
decvax!mcnc!unc!bts (USENET)
bts.unc@CSnet-Relay (lesser NETworks)fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (02/28/84)
The fa groups which used to come through Berkeley stopped some time
ago. I am working on the problem as of a week ago, and hopefully will
hack it back into shape in a week or two. I will have to coordinate with
Adam (alice!alb) on which groups to gateway, though. There will be a
warning/general announcement posted to net.general (and net.announce if Mark
thinks it's appropriate) when I have things working again.
Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA
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