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From: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Novel new idea to stop followups
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 19:47:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 19:47:32 1987
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Reply-To: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney)
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>> You make call this drastic, but people are leaving the net in great numbers
>> these days.  Almost as fast as people are joining.

I'd imagine that this net turnover, if it indeed exists, is caused more by
unrelated circumstances involving the individual users.  Many people get
their net access through means which they don't have control over - student
accounts, work machines, etc.   I've noticed quite a few such people eventually
turn up again on public sites, but I'd imagine that the majority are forced
off the net for good.

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Robert Sweeney              {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!rsweeney
Big Electric Cat Public Access Unix (212) 879-9031 - System Operator
Fight Uni.