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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.rumor,net.flame,net.singles,net.women
Subject: Re: Most Bitter Attack on A Good Man
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 11:58:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 11:58:13 1985
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> 
> How about a new news group, net.music.rumor, for all you people who insist on
> sending stuff to every news group in the known universe.

Hear, hear.  

Does *anybody* in most of these newsgroups know, or care, what this
exchange is all about?  

The arbitrary labelling of groups does mean that things have to be
cross-posted sometimes.  And arbitrary labelling is inevitable.  But
common sense might be applied once in a while.  And I've heard a
rumour that it's possible to *edit* the newsgroup line of a posting,
to avoid sending something to (for example) net.singles or net.women
which belongs in net.flame or net.micro.

Maybe it's time for somebody to consider a regrouping of net.singles,
net.women, net.women.only, net.social and net.politics into something
else.  For example:  net.relationships, net.society, net.public-affairs,
net.liberation and net.cosmetics.  But that's just an idle suggestion,
and it still wouldn't get rid of the random flamers.

CAR