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From: denbeste@bbn.com (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Metadiscussions
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Date: 4 Aug 89 13:48:09 GMT
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Reply-To: denbeste@BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste)
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It seems like there's something wrong when two-thirds of the traffic in a group
consists of articles from people trying to convince each other that the group
itself is a good thing.

The purpose of this group is to answer questions from neophytes, not to discuss
whether a group is needed to answer such questions.

Please take the latter discussion to news.groups where it belongs.



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