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Re: Statements against new.net?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed Mar 14 00:25:36 2001

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> Oh, that's right, Usenet is still usable, with fairly comprehensive
> guidelines on how hierarchy and group maintainers can keep things
> running smoothly. Even in the face of different news servers having
> different namespaces. Funny, that.

Usenet is awash in hierarchical disorder. Different servers have different
groups, at the whim of the server operator. Please let's not make DNS work
like Usenet. Thanks.

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Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/


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