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Re: Proposal: az.service-providers

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From: Kevin W. Reed
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 16:24
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pab@CS.Arizona.EDU (Peter A. Bigot) writes:

>One of the original proposals for adding groups to az.* arose from all the
>yammering about Indirect, Evergreen, and other service providers that was
>cluttering up az.general.  Somehow, that newsgroup never made it to the
>voting stages, even though more than half the material in az.general still
>seems to be related to who's got the biggest network link or studliest
>support staff.

>Since this is still a problem, I'd like to propose that az.service-providers
>be created, so that Joe Kamper and others who think it's critical to point
>out to the state when some site is behind on its news feed can bleat away to
>their hearts content without annoying everybody else.

GOOD IDEA, but name is outside the convention of 14 characters...

Suggest az.ip-providers or just plain az.providers instead

With a name change to fit convention, I'd vote for it.

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Subject: Re: Proposal: az.service-providers
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