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From: wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c])
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc,news.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Let's have other more votes..
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Date: 1 Dec 88 04:26:23 GMT
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In article <8074@megaron.arizona.edu> gln@arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell) writes:
>  >         avoid discussing .... political ... Northern Ireland ...
>  This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. So just exactly how are
>  you intending to enforce this stupid proposition - hit squads?? 

It is not stupid, nor is it unprecedented, and one enforces it by
periodically asking people to be courteous.  It generally works.  

Net.abortion was created to get the abortion discussion out
of *.women, *.religion.*, and other newsgroups, because
pro-free-choice and anti-babymurdering people have differences as
irreconcilable as the sides of the Ireland issues, but
people still want to have civilized discussions about other
topics in the various groups.

I've generally stopped reading soc.culture.celtic because
it's become a forum for political flames, and it's hard to
find any remaining discussion about linguisitics or bagpipes
or history in among the flames.  If we create a
	talk.politics.ireland,
the political discussion can go there and the non-political
discussion can stay in soc.culture.celtic.

So if anyone needs an adminsitrator to create a newsgroup
after the voting is over, I'm available.

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