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In article <> jwa@k.cs.cmu.edu (James Anderson) writes:
>Could someone tell em what the purpose of this newsgroup is, other
>than the interesting name?
>							Jim

This is the place where net readers from Earth's colonies at other stars
get together to discuss travel to and from Earth and the colonies via the
StarGate.
                   \scott
Isn't it obvious why it's empty?  :-) (-:

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In article <1076@k.cs.cmu.edu> jwa@k.cs.cmu.edu (James Anderson) writes:
>Could someone tell em what the purpose of this newsgroup is, other
>than the interesting name?
>							Jim

Simply put, stargat is a project, intended to make distribution
of volume news, such as the groups you are reading now, less
expensive by distributing it via sattellite/cable TV rather than using
the "backbone" and long distance telephone lines.

There are usually monthly updates posted by the stargate committee
(I forgot who's on it).

Appearantly, they had made arrangements with carriers, sattellite
companies, and had come up with an encryption standard.

It's been a few months since anything came out on it.  At last
report there were some concerns over censorship issues.

I don't know what the latest news is.

Rex B.

From _2001:  A Space Odyssey_:

	  The Star Gate opened.  The Star Gate closed.
	  In a moment of time too short to be measured, Space turned and
	twisted upon itself.
	  Then Japetus was alone once more, as it had been for three million
	years -- alone, except for a deserted but not yet derelict ship,
	sending back to its makers messages which they could neither believe
	nor understand.


The functioning and history doesn't fit, but the part about message content
applies to most news groups.
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