Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!jdd From: jdd@allegra.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted - (nf) Message-ID: <1518@allegra.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 09:49:07 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.1518 Posted: Tue Jun 28 09:49:07 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jun-83 19:44:25 EDT Lines: 25 From mit-eddi!rlh Sun Jun 26 13:35:16 1983 Subject: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted (mit-eddi.329) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.college Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site mhuxt.UUCP Message-ID: <329@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 23:55:16 EDT Altogether too many people had to read the first message. Any local subnets that care can set up.[whatever]. Ah, but the poor luser wasn't \in/ the geographic area being posted to! Scenario: I need some picture postcards from Wyoming. These are hard to find in New York City. I decide to ask on netnews. Maybe there's a wy.all subnet? I have no way of knowing. If I found out there were, is there a wy.wanted, or have they named it differently? Even if there were a wy.wanted, I would have no way to post to it from New Jersey. So I wimp out and use net.wanted. Moral: Geographic subgroups are nice not not very general. Cheers, John ("In At Most One Place At Any One Time") DeTreville Bell Labs, Murray Hill