Ahouxm.160 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!npois!houxi!houxm!mel Mon Mar 22 15:25:48 1982 Why not change fa. to net. now ? Now that the links to the ARPANET are munged, wouldn't it be a good time to re-think the handling of gateway traffic. It has been beyond the understanding of most users what the rules and regulations of the "fa." groups mean. Would this be a good time to get rid of the "fa." idea and just use "net." for these groups ? The gateway systems could then do whatever is required to interface the two nets. Perhaps an individual could be found for each group to interchange digests. Usenet should be able to stand on its own without the inflow from ARPANET, and if it can, the ARPANET gates should desire a two-way flow of articles and/or digests. This would all be much easier if Usenet has its own names and does not try to maintain a separate system for ARPANET traffic. Mel Haas , houxm!mel ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.