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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
Message-ID: <6132@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 11:37:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 11:37:25 1985
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> ...  Sure, there are a lot of sites not using
> Macintoshes, (including mine), but there are also a lot of sites
> not interested in religion, sports, graphics, telecommunications, or
> dozens of other subjects which are supported by the network. Maybe
> I've missed something here, but I don't see why the Macintosh group
> should be singled out when there are a lot of other groups that
> I don't care about, but I'm paying bills to move them.

Because net.sources.mac is ten times the volume (hence cost) of any of
those other groups, if you ignore the "debate" groups that we don't get
any more anyway.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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