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From: bts@unc.UUCP (Bruce Smith)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: New LIST-OF-LISTS in net.news.group
Message-ID: <6793@unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 20:08:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 20:08:52 1984
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Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Len Tower's correct about the danger or over-loading USENET/-
ARPANET gateways.  There are two options to be considered,
however, in addition to gating a mailing list to an fa.*
newsgroup:

(1)  First of all, some sites communicate with ARPANET via
     CSnet.  That's how we do it at UNC.  We have to pay for
     this, however, depending on the traffic.  CSnet doesn't
     have anything quite like news yet, so CSnet/USENET
     sites might not find out about the LIST-OF-LISTS except
     via USENET's news.  I should have mentioned this in the
     original letter, sorry. (It may be that other networks
     talk to both ARPA and USENET.  Does anyone know about
     this?)

(2)  Sometimes there is already a USENET newsgroup which
     would be appropriate for the mailing list.  This
     happened with net.lang.prolog and the PROLOG-DIGEST.
     The USENET newsgroup was actually created first, and
     for a while we were mailing it to ARPANET sites.  Now,
     someone at sri-unix has software which automatically
     "undigestifies" the mailing list into separate articles
     for net.lang.prolog.
_____________________________________
Bruce Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill
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