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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: nuke net.general?
Message-ID: <3052@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 11:31:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 11:31:39 1984
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1. Removing net.general will simply result in anyone posting something
which does not obviously fit in a topic-oriented newsgroup using
net.misc (hopefully). So it makes little difference if net.general
exists or not.

2. I am surprised that anyone would unsubscribe from net.general, no
matter what the mixture of inappropriate messages might be. It still
isn't a high-traffic group, like net.music or net.unix, so there
isn't that much of a load on anyone to scan it. To those at the BOF
that had unsubscribed: did you do this for a philosophical reason, or
was reading net.general really an imposition on you? 

3. To Mark -- post instructions for all of us to use so we, too, can
put the stuff in our postings that you put in your item (base to this
followup), which moved the followups from net.announce to net.news.group.
It sounds quite useful, and should be general knowledge.

Will