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From: chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Remove net.general??  Send me your votes
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 19:03:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 19:03:25 1985
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> it's about time net.general was banished from the phone lines of the
> earth.  
> ....
>                               let's just zap it, and let the jerks find
> another place to post their garage sale ads.

Emphatically NO.  There is need for an unmoderated announcement channel
(net.announce is moderated) to carry announcements that are too urgent (i.e
late) to go through the moderation process.  The solution is to name the
group so that "jerks" (or the non-savants) who don't read net.announce.newusers
don't think it's general discussion group.  Create mod.announce, un-moderate
net.announce and THEN remove net.general.

Charlie Lambert @ the Death Star, IL.