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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
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Posted: Mon Oct  8 07:18:50 1984
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Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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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
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