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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures
Keywords: delete obsolete newsgroups
Message-ID: <5629@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 89 19:35:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)

a person writes:
) The fewer newsgroups there are, the harder it is to find the right
) group to post in.

I don't want to advance the proposition that the author of the above
statement is a pinheaded idiot, but the statement itself is obvious
pinheaded idiocy.  Just take it to the limit: if there were only one
newsgroup, it would be trivial to select the right one for each article.
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu