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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Newsgroup changes (net.sources and net.adm)
Message-ID: <10354@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 22:41:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: gatech.10354
Posted: Fri Sep 28 22:41:26 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:23:01 EDT
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Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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The newsgroup net.adm.site has been removed.  It was an experimental
group which never quite worked, and whose purpose should be met by the
uucp map project.  Check to make sure that you don't have a "net.adm"
directory sitting around after you delete the group -- there is no
net.adm group.

The net.sources newsgroup is very valuable to many, many people on the
net.  It is often archived in some permanent manner by site
administrators.  The recent flood of "wanted" articles and discussions
about feature (?) and bugs in posted software has both dismayed and
enraged netters everywhere.

To help rectify the situation, I have created 2 new newsgroups:
net.sources.bugs and net.wanted.sources.

net.sources.bugs is intended for discussions about bugs and features of
posted sources.  Almost every followup to articles posted in
net.sources should go to this newsgroup. This is a subgroup of
net.sources instead of being net.bugs.sources for the reason that bug
fixes are desirable to archive as well as the sources.

net.wanted.sources is a subgroup to request specific items of
software.  Requests for software, termcap entries, and manual entries
should be posted here and NOT to net.sources.

I will post the updated list of active newsgroups on Oct. 1.  I will
also post a news 2.10.2 "checkgroups" message at that time.
-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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