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Article #1498Re: ECOLOG-L gateway to sci.bio.ecology
From: Doug Sewell
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 05:48
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 05:48
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Richard H. Miller (rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu) wrote: : > : >4. Are there any objections to this proposal? : Yes, one major objection, you cannot create groups in the mainstream USENET : simply by fiat. You must observe the guidelines for the creation of a new : [group...] Well... there are the 'inet' groups... however, there seem to be harsh words in news.admin.* and news.groups when an inet group is created, as well. As I understand it, 'inet' newsgroups are gatewayed mailing lists, and a number of them have been created 'by fiat'. They're supposed to all have 'Distribution: inet' in the headers, and only be propagated to the sites that want them, but it just doesn't seem to work that way. -- Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University doug@cc.ysu.edu doug@ysub.bitnet <internet>!cc.ysu.edu!doug uuencode bunny.dropping < core | mail jp@tygra.michigan.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109803,274c519da7d82cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid109803,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-12 12:10:02 PST Newsgroups: bit.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!bcm!convex!news.oc.com!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!doug From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) Subject: Re: ECOLOG-L gateway to sci.bio.ecology Message-ID: <1993Feb12.054830.22118@news.ysu.edu> Sender: news@news.ysu.edu (Usenet News Admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1.cc.ysu.edu Organization: Youngstown State/Youngstown Free-Net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1lf3sj$rrf@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 05:48:30 GMT Lines: 23