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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: newgroup/rmgroup wars
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Date: 25 Jun 88 05:19:19 GMT
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*ahem* We are a backbone site, and I was trying to do the task you
suggest, though by hand rather than in an automated sort of way.  As
soon as I "eyeballed" each of the two newgroups, I issued the
corresponding rmgroup.  I suspect the same happened at killer, since
Bill's rmgroup arrived here probably at about the same time my second
one arrived there.

I don't like to get into an rmgroup war, but if folks don't want to go
along, they don't have to rmgroup it, or even accept the newgroup for
that matter.  There was enough bloodshed on the backbone list just to
get the group created, without continuing to cause more problems by
random newgroups.

To the issuers of the newgroups: As always, your site is welcome to
carry any group it likes.  Our site is too.  We won't carry
comp.women, and I doubt that the rest of the backbone is in much of a
mood to, either.  The discussion you'd like to see is progressing in
comp.society.women with the full support of the moderator (whose idea
it was in the first place, anyway) and the rest of the net-at-large.

Let it rest now, OK?  Let's move on to the next thing, and hope we can
do it more calmly this time.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!{att,pyramid,killer}!cis.ohio-state.edu!bob