Awatmath.1360 net.news utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Fri Jan 1 17:10:06 1982 Splitting up net. and pers. It was suggested that some sites might not want to carry pers. because of a risk of lawsuits. This implies that whoever makes the division between net. and pers. in naming newsgroups is taking on responsibility for the content of the net. groups. If the committee says, here is net., it contains business and computer stuff only, and doesn't assure this, then it is meaningless. If the do assure it, then they run into problems. (I think) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.