>Alternatively you can flood fill - it's called USENET ;) - unfortunately
>when DaveM decided to dump Usenet the linux.* groups where left moderated,
>pointing to a dead address and dumped. Thats causing lots of people to
>use the lists who would have stayed using linux.* even if it was seperate,
>its removed a means where "xyz is down" messages get around and it looks
>incredibly unprofessional to news admins and usenet folks
The loss on the linux.* gateway is certainly why I had to join serveral
lists. I'd much prefer to receive the lists via my newsfeed but now
I can't. <sigh>