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From: bbh@whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Too much cross-posting?
Keywords: unix-pc.* vs. comp.sys.att groups
Message-ID: <674@whizz.uucp>
Date: 3 Jul 89 17:05:46 GMT
Reply-To: bbh@whizz.UUCP (Bud Hovell)
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Over the past several months, I've become increasingly aware of the huge
percentage of articles which cross-post between comp.sys.att and unix-pc.*.
When I get into comp.sys.att (second in order in my .newsrc), I find
myself virtually wearing out the 'n' key. (An intuitive guess is that fully
70% of the comp.sys.att traffic that I see arriving here is cross-posted
stuff from unix-pc.*).

I know there has been some discussion of this in the past - why has it been
decided to leave the unix-pc group a non-standard group not to be carried
routinely in the standard feed? Who benefits - and how?
 
                                 Bud Hovell

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