Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.dragons-inn,alt.pub.dragons-inn,news.admin
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mr. Furr)
Subject: Re: ADMIN!!!   Alt.dragons-inn and alt.pub.dragons-inn...
Message-ID: <1992Nov12.062645.10187@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Keywords: news admin groups alias
References: <BxL34D.GHu@sti.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 06:26:45 GMT

In article <BxL34D.GHu@sti.com> alaric@sti.com (Phil Stracchino) writes:
>
>...are NOT the same group!  They are separate and distinct groups, with
>separate and distinct readership.  Sites which alias alt.dragons-inn to
>alt.pub.dragons-inn are:
>(a)  making life extremely confusing for the readers of these groups;
>(b)  making it impossible for readers downstream of them to receive
>     alt.dragons-inn;
>(c)  making it very difficult for posters in alt.dragons-inn to know
>     where their posts are going to end up, or whether other readers
>     of alt.dragons-inn will ever see them.
>
>
>If you are the newsadmin at a site which has alt.dragons-inn aliased
>to alt.pub.dragons-inn, PLEASE un-alias it, for the welfare of both
>groups.
>

Just when we were wondering why people refer to alt. as "the sewer"...