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From: dlb@stc70.UUCP (David Black)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: nuke net.general?
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Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 11:03:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 11:03:43 1984
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I know that there are many serious people out there who don't want to waste
their time on net.general but I would ask you to unsubscribe rather than to
nuke it. I enjoy its hodge-podge of messages.  It and net.followup often have
discussions on topics that are of general interest/concern that would be lost
to many if they were posted to more "appropriate" news groups.  An example is
the discussion of the case of unc!tim.  This was of concern to many, but would
have been lost in net.legal or any of the other specialized news groups. We
can use at least one news group to function as a newspaper rather than a
special-interest publication.
It seems that this is a rather interesting case of a newsgroup being used
for what many seem to think is a "useful" purpose rather than its "intended"
purpose.  It is being used, those who don't like its current use should use
one of the other groups for their special purposes, as some have proposed.
So leave it, let it die from lack of use rather than misuse (or what might be
better called "its new use").
Send flames to net.general :-)

			David Black