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From: jdd@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted - (nf)
Message-ID: <1518@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 09:49:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 28 09:49:07 1983
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	From mit-eddi!rlh Sun Jun 26 13:35:16 1983
	Subject: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted (mit-eddi.329)
	Newsgroups: net.followup,net.college

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	Message-ID: <329@mit-eddi.UUCP>
	Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 23:55:16 EDT
	Altogether too many people had to read the first message.
	Any local subnets that care can set up .[whatever].

Ah, but the poor luser wasn't \in/ the geographic area being posted to!

Scenario: I need some picture postcards from Wyoming.  These are hard to
find in New York City.  I decide to ask on netnews.  Maybe there's a wy.all
subnet?  I have no way of knowing.  If I found out there were, is there a
wy.wanted, or have they named it differently?  Even if there were a
wy.wanted, I would have no way to post to it from New Jersey.  So I wimp out
and use net.wanted.

Moral: Geographic subgroups are nice not not very general.

Cheers,
John ("In At Most One Place At Any One Time") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill