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In article <DoL04t.Cpv@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rlb0p@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Gina Bull) writes:
> In article <4ipi37$23m@ns.comdial.com>, mbs@comdial.com (Michael B. Smith) writes:
> |> Much local news in Charlottesville (where there are only two local
> |> groups: chv.general and chv.test) is bottled up inside UVa. UVa has
> |> probably over 100 newsgroups in uva.*, but refuses to allow any of
> |> them outside the campus feeds.
> |>
> |> Most of the ISPs in Charlottesville have a dozen or so local
> |> newsgroups. The users on the ISPs, and at least some of the
> |> ISPs themselves, want more local news coverage. But UVa doesn't.

> The uva hierarchy is the UVa hierarchy -- it is local to UVa. Any business,
> organization, or educational institution can have their own _local_
> hierarchy. That is exactly what uva.* is. There are some very site-specific
> policies that govern use of the uva newsgroups.

Gina, I'm surprised at you. You cut part of what I said that addressed
this:

    > I've talked about relaxing coverage with uva.*, or moving some
    > of uva.* into chv.* with Gina at least two or three times over

Moving quite a bit of uva.* into chv.* is not only reasonable, but
simply good service. The want-ads, the forsale, etc. groups would
serve much better than only being part of uva.*. UVa does not stand
alone in this community.

I've read UVa's Acceptable Use policy, and I'm well aware that it's
also selectively enforced. Commercial advertisements and posts in uva.*
are very prolific, as are commercial Web pages on *.edu hosts. (Unless
there has been a crackdown in the last few months, which I somehow
think I would've heard about.)
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  //   Michael B. Smith
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