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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Housecleaning -- removing fa.apollo (and other ARPANET stuff)
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Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 19:54:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  7 19:54:41 1984
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There are exactly two sites doing gateway duty for the `fa' groups
at present. They are:

	uw-beaver:	fa.info-mac	(Thank you, Richard Furuta)

	ucbvax:		fa.human-nets	(Everything else goes through here)
			fa.telecom
			fa.info-vax
			fa.info-vlsi
			(s'more I can't remember off hand)

fa.info-cpm traffic was my fault; I turned it on and *then* noticed
that sri-unix is gatewaying it into net.micro.cpm. I asked the
moderators of INFO-CPM to turn off the Berkeley posting alias three
weeks ago. They did so one week ago. If you still have fa.info-cpm on
your system, remove it, because no futher traffic on that newsgroup is
forthcoming from Berkeley.

fa.apollo is probably dead (and certainly redundant with
net.works.apollo), (why isn't there a net.works.sun?) and so far as I
know, I'm not gatewaying anything into it.

Now, for the kicker: Occasionally in this newsgroup, the ARPA INTERNET
List of Lists is posted. This is the definitive list of mailing lists,
digests and other things on the ARPA INTERNET. Go read it, and then
MAIL me a note about which groups you would be interested in reading as
`fa.'  Remember that `fa' groups are read-only, in the sense that if
you wish to reply to the author of a particular item, or to the mailing
list as a whole, you have to MAIL your response to the return address
in the header of the netnews article (typically an alias on ucbvax
pointing to the mailing list). Also, I find that `fa' groups are best
used for digests (moderated ARPANET mailing lists with one posting per
day) rather than direct distribution mailing lists (like USENET).

I will, at some future date when the requests stop pouring in,
summarize the list of requested ARPANET groups in a posting to this
newsgroup, and we can debate on the relative merits of various ARPANET
mailing lists, and what we should call them here in bangland.

	fair enough?

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA

	dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA
	{ihnp4,ucbvax,hplabs,decwrl,cbosgd,sun,nsc,apple,pyramid}!dual!fair
	Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California

P.S.	Will someone at SRI-UNIX.ARPA please mail me a list of the ARPANET
	groups that you are gatewaying into net.* groups and the mappings?