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From: control@almsa-1 (William Martin)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.micro.zx,net.mail.msggroup
Subject: Re: Removing newsgroups
Message-ID: <185@almsa-1>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 11:13:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 11:13:09 1985
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Reply-To: control@almsa-1.UUCP (William Martin)
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Re net.mail.msggroup: The ARPANET "Msggroup" list still exists; it has
had traffic recently, but the last several months have been at a rather
low level. It appears that the gateway into Usenet for this mailing list
has been broken, which is why it doesn't have any activity showing up.

Since there has been little noise raised about the broken gateway, it
seems fairly obvious that there is little need for the dedicated group.
Perhaps someone could fix the gateway, but set it up one-way-only and
feed any traffic into "net.mail". Since it is devoted mainly to
ARPA-style RFC 822 message-related discussions (but more generally than
the "header-people" list, which is for technical details), anybody with
input to send to it would have to have ARPA access anyway, so there is
no need for a two-way gateway. This would let Usenetters read the
traffic if there is any interest, but minimize the impact by deleting
the dedicated group.

Regards,
Will Martin

ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA    UUCP/Usenet: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin