On 24 May 1997, Rick Ellis wrote:
> In article <m0wV1Fn-0005FiC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>,
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >Alternatively you can flood fill - it's called USENET ;) - unfortunately
> >when DaveM decided to dump Usenet the linux.* groups where left moderated,
> >pointing to a dead address and dumped. Thats causing lots of people to
> >use the lists who would have stayed using linux.* even if it was seperate,
> >its removed a means where "xyz is down" messages get around and it looks
> >incredibly unprofessional to news admins and usenet folks
>
> The loss on the linux.* gateway is certainly why I had to join serveral
> lists. I'd much prefer to receive the lists via my newsfeed but now
> I can't. <sigh>
>
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