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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: na.forsale
Message-ID: <6103@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 08:03:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcvax.6103
Posted: Thu Oct 18 08:03:49 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 02:00:21 EDT
References: <10468@gatech.UUCP>
Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Distribution: net
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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Summary: 

In article <10468@gatech.UUCP spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes:
> I have received a fair amount of mail recently suggesting that "na.forssale"
> be deleted and replaced by "net.forsale".  The arguement here is that people
> shoud restrict the distribution themselves.  Furthermore, sites in Europe
> and Asia can simply not have the group sent to them, thus achieving the same
> goal as the "na" part of the group.

Why does it bother anyone that it's called na.forsale? It seems to me a good
idea because it explicitely states its maximum distribution; no one gets the
idea that it also goes to net.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax