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From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net.misc.coke?  Surely you jest!
Message-ID: <564@decuac.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 14:12:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 14:12:41 1985
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In article <324@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> 	What?  Are you kidding?  What ever happened to not creating a
> new group unless there was 1) a demonstrable need 2) discussion about it
> beforehand in the proper channels and 3) a reasonable likelihood that
> the topic of discussion was not transitory?  I eagerly await some net

     Ahem....  Hey, let me start off by saying 1) I didn't create
net.misc.coke and 2) I am not related to the person who created said
group.

     This is kind of an exception to the rule.  You know... they're
always supposed to have exceptions. net.{general,followup,misc} were
getting flooded (it seemed like it anyway) with New Coke - Old Coke
stuff.  It was quite reasonable for someone to create a group like
this in such an emergency situation(!).  Especially since said person
agreed to remove it when the hoopla dies down.

-Fred