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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds (net.bizarre and net.internat)
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 18:31:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 18:31:46 1985
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This followup was prompted by a long rather boring flame.

1.  Those superusers are "topologically well placed" because their
    sites are paying a large portion of usenet's bills.

2.  I was pleased to see someone taking some strong decisive action
    for a change.  I support the decision drop net.bizarre.

3.  I am in awe of the misunderstandings and miscommunication abounding
    with regard to net.internat.  I haven't seen anyone deny that
    it serves a useful purpose yet most of the flames have concentrated
    on defending its purpose.   I believe all that is intended is to
    fit it properly into the newsgroup structure with a more reasonable
    name.  The discussion was barely two days old before the newgroup
    messsage came around.  Hardly enough time for feedbackto get back
    to Europe.

    net.internat is clearly a poor name.  The group charter as "mandated"
    by the EUUG was to discuss the internationalization (ugh! who made
    up that word?) of Unix.  Yet I've already seen several people who
    believe it is for discussion of international software issues.
    To more properly fulfill its creator's intentions it should clearly
    be net.unix.internat or even mod.std.internat.

-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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