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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: "The Railroad Paradox"
Message-ID: <485@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 01:30:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 01:30:14 1984
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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> While it doesn't necessarily carry over completely, I am nevertheless
> reminded of a certain style of interchange in this news group:
> 
> 	A: "Let's create net.foo.bar, so we can talk about 'bar' without
> 		being flooded (or attacked) by the traffic in net.foo"
> 	B: "There aren't enough articles in net.foo which talk about 'bar',
> 		so request denied!"
> 	A: [(*sigh*) But everybody's TIRED of trying to use net.foo ...]
> 
> Just thought you'd be interested...

I agree.  I never have found very convincing the argument "Don't create a
group until there are many articles about that subject in another group".
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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