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Old 20-04-2003, 06:13 AM
Velvet
 
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Default Is it alt.binaries.aquaria or rec.aquaria.binaries

The problem is that alt.binaries.aquaria isn't on the ISC list.

This is the current, active, ISC list.

ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/newsgroups

As you can see, there's NO alt.binaries.aquaria group on there. I would
suggest your ISP either added this when the group WAS ISC listed (I don't
know if it ever was), or they aren't that averse to sneakily adding a
non-ISC listed group here and there.

Whichever, mine, sadly, isn't so flexible. They won't give an inch, cos
they know it'll be taken a mile.

Velvet


"Philippe Lemaire" wrote in message
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My ISP only provides ISC NGs and provides alt.binaries.aquaria...
So what is wrong with yours ?

Philippe


"Velvet" wrote in message

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| 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 :-)
|
| Velvet
|
|