🚀 go-pugleaf

Daniel Barlow wrote:
> In article <Dsu2ps.AI5@djwhome.demon.co.uk>,
> David Woolley  <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >Demon already carry these as USENET.
> 
> Which benefits Demon customers (or at least, does when the list->newsgroup
> lag is less than two weeks and the `.com' exploder which feeds the gateway
> at Yggdrasil hasn't broken down, and Yggdrasil haven't been mysteriously
> unsubscribed due to transient bouncing problems, and ...)
> 
> But it's scarcely a lot of help to anyone else in the UK.  Maybe (especially
> as pubnews is down and has no ETA) Demon could look on a vger exploder as
> being one of their `give things back to the Internet community' projects.
> Besides, even if pubnews was working that's still no use to ac.uk people,
> who can't get access to it.

Why doesn't an .ac.uk site act as an exploder then?? And doesn't Demon
exchange the linux.* groups with its peers, some of whom I imagine are
in the academic community?

-Steve
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