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From: rayd@laidbak.i88.isc.com (Ray Dueland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Goodbye
Message-ID: <1989Aug20.052345.7773@i88.isc.com>
Date: 20 Aug 89 05:23:45 GMT
References: <623@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <10865@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <633@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: rayd@i88.isc.com (Kid Charlemagne)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
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In article <633@cbnewse.ATT.COM> mea@cbnewse.ATT.COM
>The reason AT&T has pulled the plug [on alt.drugs] is because of the
>possible negative media attention that they would get if it were discovered
>that they supported a netnews group that contained information on
>cultivating marijuana etc.

I, for one, am going to cross post all my alt.drugs postings to comp.sys.att.
My experience has been that when certain groups or distributions are not
supported, only postings that are exclusively withing that group are
deleted.  Cross-posting to a "legitimate" newsgroups will preserve the
posting.  May turn out to be a bit of the Sampson complex, but what is news
without alt.drugs?