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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

Surely it was !
Nice my ISP doesn't know it is NOT anymore ...

Philippe


"Velvet" wrote in message ...
| The problem is that alt.binaries.aquaria isn't on the ISC list.
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| This is the current, active, ISC list.
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| ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/newsgroups
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| 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.
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| Whichever, mine, sadly, isn't so flexible. They won't give an inch, cos
| they know it'll be taken a mile.
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| Velvet
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| "Philippe Lemaire" wrote in message
| ...
| My ISP only provides ISC NGs and provides alt.binaries.aquaria...
| So what is wrong with yours ?
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| Philippe
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| "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 :-)
| |
| | Velvet
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