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From: ege@cblpf.ATT.COM (Ernie Englehart)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.groups
Subject: rec.gambling is a big loser
Message-ID: <577@cblpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 15:23:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  7 15:23:46 1987
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Well, it looks like rec.gambling is a big loser.  I got about three
yes votes and about ten no votes.

I found extremely interesting the discussions that have followed regarding
the "right" or "privledge" or "ability" of people to post articles to
certain groups, or to create new groups.

If an individual can control which newsgroups he wants to read, via the
.newsrc file, then why can't a machine have a similar file?  The machine
ought to be able to toss out those articles that he does not want, or
to specify a list of newsgroups to be accepted, and reject all others.
This ought to solve people's objections to new groups due to the volume
of articles that could be posted.

Creating a mail.gambling group is a great idea, but I don't have the time
or resources to manage something like that effectively.

On another note, I must regretfully unsubscribe to soc.singles because
there is just too much junk to read.  I am a single guy who doesn't want
to stay single for the rest of my life.  I was hoping that I could get
some fresh ideas from soc.singles.  Oh, well, I'll survive without it.


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**  Ernie Englehart, AT&T Network Systems  **  "Good things come   **
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