Autah-cs.500
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!utah-cs!fjl
Mon Mar 22 15:21:33 1982
Re: Why not change fa. to net. now ?
It may be desirable to run them as normal Usenet newsgroups (I'm not
going to take a position on that, but I really doubt the gateways are
gone forever) but I would plead to keep the names the same as they are
now.  Our institution is on both Arpa & Usenet, so we don't want to get
such voluminous submissions as the fa. digests twice.  Having the name
spaces separate makes such classification easy.

(Matter of fact, it would break our feeder's distributed B news if he
had to list each !fa group separately in our sys file entry.  And since
the "pers/net" distinction doesn't exist, we had to change the allowed
length there to accomodate a site we feed which only wants "hard"
newsgroups.)  Perhaps the time to change the names might be if and when
we undergo the cataclysm of a pers/net name change.
       Jay Lepreau, Univ of Utah

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