Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!unc!bts 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 Article-I.D.: unc.6793 Posted: Mon Feb 20 20:08:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 08:49:03 EST References: <915@inmet.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 27 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 decvax!mcnc!unc!bts (USENET) bts.unc@CSnet-Relay (lesser NETworks)