Is this group dead?
Peter Smyth
(uk.net.jips) it appears that the only messages being sent here are
spam. The last on-topic message that I can find is 17th May 2000.
Therefore unless some people reply to this who think this group is
still useful I will post an RFD to uk.net.news.config asking for the
removal of this group.
Peter Smyth
Bob Pockney
I thought it was a mailing list that also fed into a newsgroup. The
last posting we have is Sept 1st 2000
Subject: UK DNS COUNT (Auto-Generated)
I think it is dead though !
Bob Pockney
Malcolm Ray
I was thinking the same myself only the other day. Back in the days
when we (ac.uk) were running IP over X.25 (often using hardware not
commonly found elsewhere), I think there was a good argument for a
UK forum for mutual support. But those times are gone, thankfully.
--
Malcolm Ray University of London Computer Centre
Sam.W...@ed.ac.uk
I'm not sure this is whole story. Back in The Old Days (tm) (no, not Ye
Olde Days when we had the Coloured Book protocols) the janet-ip mailing
list and its linked newsgroup were partnered by a number of closed
mailing lists - dodag, iptag, lltag etc.. The folks on the UKERNA
advisory groups used the closed list for technical discussion, whilst
more public announcements and discussion came out on
janet-ip/uk.net.jips.
These days UKERNA seem to have stopped announcing things on janet-ip,
instead using NTLG, the successor to the closed lists, for all their
announcements about networking technologies. If it's a conscious
decision that all public info and discussion takes place on NTLG rather
than janet-ip then it can be removed, but I that's not what I thought
was the purpose of NTLG the group, rather than NTLG the mailing list.
Anyone from UKERNA care to comment? Bob? Kevin? Baoyu? Ady? Who's
supposed to look after NTLG these days?
Sam Wilson
Network Services Division
Computing Services, The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK