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RE: Triumphs USENET Newsgroup?

To: "Bill Gunshannon" <bill@cs.uofs.edu>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Triumphs USENET Newsgroup?
From: "Mark Gendron" <mgendron@speakeasy.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:32:15 -0800charset="iso-8859-1"
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gunshannon
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: Triumphs USENET Newsgroup?

>> If you post to one of these groups, your message is ultimately 
>> forwarded to the news server that "owns" the group. 

>Sorry, wrong.  No one person or server "owns" any USENET group.  

Well, yes. That is why I put the word "owns" in quotes. 
So how does a newsgroup get started? You mentioned that it is 
hard to start a new rec.* newsgroup. Is there more to it than 
just convincing your friendly ISP to add a new group to their 
outgoing news feed? 


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