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Old 20-04-2003, 07:13 AM
Philippe Lemaire
 
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Default Is it alt.binaries.aquaria or rec.aquaria.binaries

My ISP only provides ISC NGs and provides alt.binaries.aquaria...
So what is wrong with yours ?

Philippe


"Velvet" wrote in message ...
| ISC (internet software consortium) is the body that now maintains the list
| of usenet newsgroups which conform to the standards agreed regarding naming
| conventions (to make it organised and thus speed searching for a group, and
| the posts within). Whilst they didn't originally lay down the guidelines,
| they are the current holders of the list, and the people who add and remove
| groups to it. Generally, the organisations that are involved with the
| actual running of the internet will never bend the rules, unless the purpose
| is to make the net more efficient, and even then, because people seem to
| give up time on a volunteer basis to look after this side of the net for us,
| it can be a slow process to actually discuss, evaluate, vote, and then look
| at implementing, a change (which, because no one organisation actually has
| 'control' over what people should do online, can be a very slow and tedious
| process, hence the rigorous sticking to the guidelines).
|
| All this is gleaned from searching within google for info on the ISC, so I
| might have it a bit wrong. Forgive me if there are innacuracies, I'm not an
| expert on this side of the internet at all :-)
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| Velvet
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