From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 17:55:45 CDT
On 9/25/01 12:49 PM, Claus Färber
at <list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de> wrote:
> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> schrieb/wrote:
>> No, only on ISP's for whom automatic newgroup handling on local
>> hierarchies that use UTF-8 newsgroup names are important. Even
>> without the fix, all the major Danish ISP's have created the test
>> group now less than two days after the newgroup message was send.
>
> Is dk.* only distributed in Denmark?
>
> If no: It might be much more difficult to persuade a news
> administrator in, say, the USA to create this group, especially if
> s/he does not run INN but a server that fails to handle such
> groups completly.
No, it's not distributed only in Denmark. The hierarchy (and this
particular group) is carried by Supernews for instance. Demon carries the
hierarchy (but not the group).
-- J.B. Moreno