Re: Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

On 2004-11-23, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> Due to recent action by Google concerning the
>>> comp.databases.postgresql.* hierarchy, we are going to make some
>>> changes that should satisfy just about everyone ... over the next
>>> 24hrs or so, traffic *to*
>>> comp.databases.postgresql.* from the mailing lists will cease and be
>>> re-routed to pgsql.* instead ... on our server (and we encourage
>>> others to do the same), the comp.* groups will be aliased to the new
>>> pgsql.* hierarchy, so that posts to the old groups will still get
>>> through ...
>>
>> What exactly is this meant to achieve?
>
> To clean up the comp.* hierarchy ... evcen if the 4/5 that are being RFDd
> right now pass, ppl are going to continue screaming that the other 15-16
> should be removed as well ... this way, thos using news.postgresql.org can
> still get access to the whole hierarchy, while the comp.* would only carry
> those that are deemed "official"

Any chance of there being regular (or even only occasional) signed
checkgroups messages for the new hierarchy?

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