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Re: About "bit.listserv.skeptic"

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From: blakenospam
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:29
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In article <87oexsdyut.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery says...
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>blakenospam <blakenospam@newsguy.com> writes:
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>> Oh, and taking your comments out of context, like you did mine,
>> "considering the newsgroups are mostly echoes of lists". Talk about
>> lies, and damn ones at that.  What are you talking about? There are well
>> over 30,000 'newsgroups' within the Usenet network, less than 100 of
>> which are dedicated towards gateways to exchange message traffic with
>> mail lists.
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>FWIW, your counts are very badly off.  There are *way* more than 100
>mailing list gateways on Usenet.

Russ,

My reference was to those that fall under the bit.* hierarchy. While I know
there used to be a lot more when bit.* was handled by American University, most
of the obsolete ones were weeded out. The current official count I see is 53.

Blake
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Subject: Re: About "bit.listserv.skeptic"
Date: 11 Sep 2003 10:29:03 -0700
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