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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
Message-ID: <5212@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 24 Jul 89 11:34:05 GMT
References: <7429@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <5202@ficc.uu.net> <237@unmvax.unm.edu>
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In article <237@unmvax.unm.edu>, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
> Everyone who gets them tacitly has agreed to abide by the same
> restrictions the mailing lists originally had.

	"Hey, you want to get gnu.*"
	"Dunno, any good?"
	"Sure, everyone gets them"
	"OK"

Newsgroups don't look like mailing lists, and the gnu groups in particular
are widely distributed to people who have no more "tacitly agreed" to any
restrictions than the (fictional but typical) conversation above. If they're
to be seen as mailing lists, somone at the root has to monitor and control
their distribution.
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