Future of this list

[A. Karl Kornel]

On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Colin Ogilvie wrote:

> On Wed Dec 21 12:31 , David Miller <justdave at bugzilla.org> sent:
>> Another point I forgot to mention is that these new newsgroups will
> only
>> be accessible via news.mozilla.org and Google Groups.  We've got
>> arrangements with both GigaNews and Google to not propagate them any
>> further.  This will hopefully help a lot with the spam content.
>
> That's a bit unfortunate, really - since many other providers (eg my
> ISP) carry the netscape.public.* heirarchy, and I can imagine many
> people finding this a problem...

	That will almost certainly be a problem.  Unfortunately, I don't  
know how many servers honor requests to delete newsgroups (as opposed  
to requests to create them).  It may be best if someone arranged a  
script to regularly send out a post to the old newsgroups, notifying  
people of the fact the the old groups are no longer in use and  
providing information on how to connect to the new groups.  The last  
part is especially important if only a few servers are going to be  
carrying the groups.


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