We've basically heard this before, but I wanted to forward it on FYI.

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From: *#^&[log in to unmask] (slow djinn)
Newsgroups: news.admin.hierarchies
Subject: Future of the bit.* hierarchy
Date: 17 Dec 1998 13:03:01 -0800
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
FYI, i had emailed Peter regarding the status of the hierarchy:

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> Are you still running a gateway for the mailing lists?  If so, where
> may i find an updated list of groups?  Also, now that Jim McIntosh is
> no longer there, what is the proper address which will issue control
> messages for the hierarchy?

        Hi. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Yes <sigh> we are
still running the gateway. We pretty much hate the gateway but out of some
sort of Internet responsibility we keep it up. Supposedly, newsguy
(http://www.newsguy.com/) has taken over some of the gateways for us.
One way or another, we can't do gatewaying past May 1, 1999 because we are
getting rid of our mainframe. We could do the gate on a unix box, but we
really don't want to. I have the pgp keys for bit.* and i still send them out
as jim. take care.
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