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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: news.groups,eunet.news.group
- Subject: Re: eunet?
- Message-ID: <BzMHt1.EsB@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:53:24 GMT
- References: <1gtdihINN6c0@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Followup-To: eunet.news.group
- Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie
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- zombie@EBay.Sun.COM wrote:
- > What are the eunet.* groups for?
-
- They're a European group hierarchy that you shouldn't be seeing except for
- crossposted articles. If your spool disk is getting flooded with this
- stuff, complain to the international backbone site that's passing it on to
- you.
-
- There is no justification for the continued existence of the "eunet" groups
- if they're reaching the whole planet, since all but one just replicate
- groups in worldwide hierarchies with the aim of reducing bandwidth. If we
- can't do anything to stop this excessive distribution, let's get rid of the
- lot.
-
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