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Jonathan Monahan

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Mar 10, 1995, 4:02:09 AM3/10/95

Hello,
I posted a note a while ago now asking for information on VOGON News Service. Obviously, no-one knows anything about it as I haven't heard a jot,
or seen a reply in this group.

So, is there are possible replacement (ie. any other summary daily news service for the UK and World which is delivered my email) ?

Thanks,
Jonathan.

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Gwyn Evans

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Mar 15, 1995, 6:25:25 AM3/15/95

Michael Winnett (mwin...@satchmo.win-uk.net) wrote:
:
: In article <3jp4ih$7...@icebox.mfltd.co.uk>, Jonathan Monahan (j...@mfltd.co.uk) writes:
: >Hello,

: > I posted a note a while ago now asking for information on
: > VOGON News Service.

: Aren't they characters from Hitchhikers Guide? do they really
: have a news service?

Well, what it originally was was a mailing list run by Digital employees
in the UK who mailed snippets of UK news/sports info to Digital expats
abroad. This grew into a regular news feed, mailed out from a node
called VOGON::, on Digital's internal network, hence VNS.

IIRC, Craig Cockburn started posting the UK News & Sport sections here
for a while before I took over. After a little more time I started
mailing it off to a distribution list and a Cardiff newsgroup, where it
was picked by RobH's script and placed on the WWW. Since then however,
the group I work for has left Digital and thus I no longer get VNS and
can't forward it anywhere...

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