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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: I like ALL new news-group
Message-ID: <333@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 12:13:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 27 12:13:18 1984
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A quote from a recent article <843@cvl.UUCP> in net.general explains
the problem with too many newsgroups better than I could:

               I am so sorry to have put a test message on net.general .
I am a newcomer here and so have pity on me.I usually read very little
netnews and transmit very rarely.I wanted to send something important
and before doing that I wanted to make sure that messages really get
sent.Hence the test message .I was not aware of the existence of 
net.test ,a group meant solely for testing purposes .I had also not
read about this in net.announce. There are so many newsgroups that
a newcomer does not know what to read and what not to read ....

Like it or not, new users are constantly joining and (often) misusing
the net.  Every added newsgroup makes the problem a little bit worse.
					Kenneth Almquist