Re: What is the bit newsgroups?

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From: Adam H. Kerman
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 00:00

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nospam@nospam.net wrote:

>There had once been several gateways transferring posts between the
>newsgroups and the mail lists, maintained by volunteers at universities.  The
>last of these died a slow and lingering death of neglect when the one person
>doing the work, Jim McIntosh, finally left American University for greener
>pastures, about two years ago now.  The bit newsgroups are now orphaned, most
>of them abandoned.  They're still in the Netnews distribution system because
>American University lost the PGP keys needed for control orders.

Do you know this for a fact?

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