Re: Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

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"

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