Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Why aren't they posting to the subgroups? Message-ID: <8960@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 15:44:47 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8960 Posted: Tue Mar 5 15:44:47 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 04:54:56 EST References: <1251@sunybcs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 29 > Net.music is only one of the newsgroups that is gated to the ARPAnet; the > gateway is "INFO-MUSIC". Those on ARPAnet receiving the information have > no place to post followups, except to the parent group. (That is, unless > the subgroups are enabled at each of the ARPA sites.) Up until recently, > the net.music subgroups were mis-forwarded into net.music. > > (I might be wrong about some parts of the gateway concept; I'm not at an > ARPAnet site. Perhaps Ron Natalie or Gene Spafford can elaborate further > on what is being forwarded, and how the gateways work.) > Your analysis is correct. Up until very recently net.music.* was posted to INFO-MUSIC. INFO-MUSIC was posted to net.music. If someone on the arpanet responded to a net.music.folk article, it would appear in net.music. INFO-MICRO had this in a much worse way, so I turned off the gateway. I finally figured out how to block the subgroups about a month ago. Still INFO-MICRO is plagued by the lack of mailing lists for groups like the Commodore and a lot of it's traffic is commodore specific garbage. I am in the process of getting all the net.micro subgroups paired up with their Arpa counter parts. Finally, I would like to point out that I would like to divest BRL of doing the INFO-MUSIC anything distributions. That is, I will still provide forwarding from USENET to wherever the list gets rehomed to, but I want the ARPANET side of INFO-MUSIC run from some other host. Any ARPANET volunteers? -Ron