Re: New UseNet Gateway under construction [OFFTOPIC]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 26 May 1997 22:41:16 +0100 (BST)


> hierarchy name other than linux.*. The reason being that there are
> thousands of news machines out there with linux.* already on them from
> the old gatewaying, and this would probably make leak prevention much

Rest assured most newsadmins will just delete it on the spot. The clueless
lack of usenet protocol following in leaving moderated dead groups around
has ensured that a lot of serious usenet admin simply regard the linux folks
responsible as complete fuckwits has ensured that forever