Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group Subject: Re: Submitted for your approval: net.forsale Message-ID: <10438@gatech.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 07:18:50 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.10438 Posted: Mon Oct 8 07:18:50 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 02:57:39 EDT References: <550@sunybcs.UUCP> <5988@mcvax.UUCP> <1483@nsc.UUCP> <582@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 23 Based on this discussion and mail, I have created the group "na.forsale". This group is to be used for posting any kind of "for sale" notices. Admittedly, "na" (North America) is a bit wider distribution than appropriate for most advertisements, but at least everyone in Europe won't be seeing ads for football tickets for sale in NJ. Hopefully, people will be more aware of the distribution when they see the "na" -- it isn't as easy to take for granted as is the "net" prefix. I would strongly urge *everyone* to convert to 2.10.2 news. In 2.10.2, whenever you post an article, you are given a more detailed prompt for the distribution of the article. Included is the capability to list all of the valid distributions. Plus, 2.10.2 has a number of bug fixes and enhancements. 2.10.2 was posted to net.sources a few weeks ago. Many sites have it archived for uucp transfer. I believe that rick@seismo will be posting it again in the next week or so, along with a few minor bug fixes to the original release. Don't let it get past you without making a copy. -- Off the Wall of Gene Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-sally}!gatech!spaf