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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.misc
Subject: Re: Faith in Evolution.
Message-ID: <485@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 11:42:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  6 11:42:43 1983
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	From: martin@auvax.UUCP
	Newsgroups: net.religion,net.misc
	Subject: Re: Faith in Evolution.
	Message-ID: <155@auvax.UUCP>
	Date: Tue, 5-Jul-83 19:02:35 EDT


	In response to the religious individual who wishs to force his
	absurd views based upon some old scrawled papers upon the net,

	would he please keep his comments to net.religion where they belong
	and not in other groups so that people who do not wish to waste their
	time reading mindless tripe about religion can view miscellaneous
	information that might be of some interest.

	Although this is pointed towards one particular letter which I read,
	people should have the common courtisy to attempt to post to only
	one news group.  I've seen up to seven news groups posted to 
	simultaneously.

	Don Martin
	Athabasca University

No!  If an article belongs in more than one group, by all means post it
to more than one.  You should only draw the line when you're planning to
submit to a miscellaneous group and a specific group, and the article
isn't a followup to something else.

To clear up assorted myths:  if an article is posted once, but to multiple
groups, it will be transmitted once, stored once, and presented once (the
latter holds only if both groups are read during the same readnews session).
The ability to post articles to multiple groups was an essential part of the
original design, because too many submissions don't fit neatly into one
heading.  As Mark has mentioned, the real crime is to post the same thing
twice.

		--Steve