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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Boy, is net.politics busy these days...
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 07:43:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 07:43:23 1984
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In article <137@talcott.UUCP> gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) writes:
> In fact, net.politics is about eight times as busy as, say, net.math or
> net.physics.  I suggest we split it up into some or all of the following:
> 
> 		net.politics.abortion
> 		net.politics.economic
> 		net.politics.foreign
> 		net.politics.nukes
> 		net.politics.rights
> 		net.politics.sevener :-)
> 

Well, perhaps it's because I use rn and so can kill a whole subject that the
traffic in net.politics doesn't bother me. For instance I never read
anything on libertarianism, which seems to cause a lot of traffic.
But still I'm very unsure about this division; another abortion group?
And what does 'politics.foreign' mean in the context of an international net?

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam, apparently in Sweden :-)