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Article #106Re: About "bit.listserv.skeptic"
From: blakenospam
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:29
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:29
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In article <87oexsdyut.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery says... > >blakenospam <blakenospam@newsguy.com> writes: > >> 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. > >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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