Acbosgd.2009 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!vax135!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Mon Feb 1 19:10:12 1982 results of USENIX meeting There was a very large and enthusiastic BOF for USENET at USENIX. Bill Jolitz was taking notes and hopefully they will be posted soon. Here are some highlights: The network name will remain "USENET". There was almost no support for "Arachnet" which leads me to wonder if all those electronic votes were forged. The newsgroup net.jokes.q will go away. Likewise net.jokes.limericks. All sites are requested to forbid it in their sys and ngfiles at once. If some sites want to set up ug.jokes, feel free, but I won't have anything to do with it. (The important thing is to prevent anyone getting it by accident. If you have to request ug.jokes explicitly, it's hard to get it by accident.) Illinois presented their notesfiles system in a very entertaining talk. Their software is not ready to hook into USENET yet, and has not yet been proven in a large network environment. But it looks promising. The first release of B news will be posted to net.sources in a few days. There are still a few things that have to be fixed before it goes out. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.