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TA Control and the History of Netnews

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From: joshua geller
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <p4www1j91c6.fsf@panix7.panix.com>,
Jim Kingdon  <kingdon@panix7.panix.com> wrote:

>> >> So is Richard Sexton.

>> >Yes, but there isn't any us.aquaria, 

>> Are you sure?

Personally, I am reasonably sure that if there isn't one now there
will be one shortly.

>> >                                     so it's safe to assume that he's not
>> >around here at the moment.  :)

>> He's always closer than you think.

>Hmm, good point.  You can never be too careful.

I wonder if josh@cabal.org still works?

>Of course, this provides the answer to your question about why we need
>a us.* hierarchy: we ran out of other places to put *.aquaria.*
>groups.

I don't really object to a us.* hierarchy as much as I do to the
firmness of the clench on the control that Henrietta wants to be
applying.

>(I snipped the tcp-ip.domains group, not because I missed the reason
>for it (although it took me a minute, I'll confess), but because I
>just couldn't bring myself to leave it in.

I put it back in because, well, just because.

>                                         I know, I know, "My name
>is Jim, and I'm a recovering namespace fanatic ".  

Hi, Jim.

>                                                   Or something like
>that).

und viel full anderes dinge, heute und morgens.

j.
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From: dclxvi@best.com (joshua geller)
Subject: TA Control and the History of Netnews
Date: 1999/02/15
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