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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
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 15:44:47 1985
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> 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