K News is a non-topic; it generated, what, a month or two of discussion?
The renaming was instigated and done by Rick Adams because his
news/sys file was getting unwieldy.
Here is a paragraph culled from something I'm writing; it's been
okay'd by pretty much everyone I mention in it:
The first version of pathalias was written by Steve Bellovin while
working on his doctorate at the University of North Caroline at Chapel
Hill. He posted it to Usenet in around 1982, and included patches to
picked it up and installed it on allegra, a Bell Labs machine at Murray
Hill, NJ. At that time, allegra was the center of the UUCP mail world (a
role since assumed by sites named ihnp4, seismo, and now uunet), and at the
time when Usenet was starting to explode all over the place. Before he
left for Princeton, Peter had moved from tweaking the options, to doing
serious redesign of most of the algorithms. Peter is still maintaining
the program, and it his followed him out to the University of Michigan.
John Gilmore and Brian Reid, with help from Carl at pyramid, created
alt. I think the reasons were that Brian didn't like mod.gourmand-->
rec.recipes, and that John didn't like having no unmoderated source
group. I would contact them at first, however.
The UUCP project was started by Horton, with Weinstein, and Mel. It's
now folded down into just UUCP maps. I believe that Rutgers basically
pays for the coordination. :-)
AlterNet, NYSERNET/PSI -- non-issues.
NNTP and the large-scale gatewaying into newsgroups is Erik Fair's
doing.
I think gnu.* came about while Karl was in the shower. :-)
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