🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct7.155740.10460@netcom.com>, rbp@netcom.com (Bob Pasker)
writes:
>tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:
>>DEC routinely posts press releases to the net in biz.dec....
>
>which is where they belong.  press releases usualy violate NSF
>guildelines, which is why a separate hierarchy was created for them,
>allowing sites who maintain strict adherenece to the guidelines to
>ignore an entire hierarchy.  adding v.a.dec is probably not a problem
>for NIX consotium users and commercial uucp users, but it would most
>likely pose a delemma for those using BARRnet and CERFnet.

I should have thought of that, but then, I'm not on the internet myself. Anyway,
as far as I'm concerned that decides the issue. The group will not be created.
We'd be foolish to add a group to VMSnet that caused people to have to seriously
consider whether they could carry VMSnet as a whole. 

Arguments about whether the guidelines would really hold up or be enforced miss
the point. Many news managers on NSFnet follow the guidelines out of conscience,
whether their users always do or not, and so we'd be cutting our own propagation
to those sites.

Also, I'm not sure I agree about this traffic not being appropriate to the
hierarchy, but that issue is irrelevant now.

Those who contacted me saying they'd like to get the info and don't already
should consider taking Mark Berryman up on his offer of a feed, or contact their
existing feed to try and get the biz hierarchy.

Bottom line: no group. Thanks for all the input!
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