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blakenospam <blakenospam@newsguy.com> writes:
> 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.

> 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.

If you're trying to say that there are fewer than 100 newsgroups in the
bit.* hierarchy, using those words would probably be good.  What you said
instead is that there are fewer than 100 newsgroups which are gateways of
mailing lists.  That's incorrect.

bit.* is far from the only hierarchy with newsgroups that are mailing list
gateways.  To list a few other examples, all of:

    comp.protocols.kerberos
    comp.protocols.dns.bind
    sci.psychology.consciousness
    rec.arts.comics.creative

are bidirectionally gatewayed to mailing lists, not to mention the
entirety of the linux.* hierarchy, much of the gnu.* hierarchy, etc.  And
those are just the ones that I'm personally involved with or have used.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>