🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm sorry following quotation from my previous posting might have
caused some misunderstanding.

 >By the way, though the topic of this thread may be suitable to
 >soc.culture.japan or whatever in soc, I have no access to soc
 >newsgroups. Therefore, I support life-in-japan NG. 

davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
 >Not that it's so interesting (mostly non-Japanese discussing things
 >Japanese and/or telling Japan how it should be :-) But I'm curious,
 >you don't get all the regular USENET newsgroups? 

kenji@tom.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake) also writes:
 >It's very sad to find out that only few domains in Japan are
 >read-write accessible to non-fj newsgroups. And it's really disgusting
 >that very very few Japanese domains are paying money for overseas
 >email traffic. I urge those domain to subscribe international mail
 >service such as InetClub or UUNET ASAP; otherwise they do a very
 >harmful thing to our Internet society.

The reason my site does not subscribe to the regular USENET newsgroups
is just because we don't have enough disk space to hold all the
articles.  

Our parent domain toshiba.co.jp is a member of InetClub and subscribes
at least most of the major newsgroups in USENET including soc-domain.  
So, the problem is just finding more disk space in our local site and
find someone who take care of the news maintenance. But, you know, we
are using company's facility, and are supposed to do our assigned
jobs :-)

I wonder how many of local sites in co.jp subscribe all the USENET
domains. For example, my site does comp and gnu.
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Yoshiaki KOHNO  <aki@mel.toshiba.co.jp>
IRC, Manufacturing Engineering Research Center, TOSHIBA Corp.