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From: timb@diablo.amd.com (Tim Bessie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Goodbye
Message-ID: <26877@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 89 18:10:01 GMT
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In article <1989Aug20.052345.7773@i88.isc.com> rayd@i88.isc.com (Kid Charlemagne) writes:
>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?


I shall do exactly the same thing!

	WHAT TO YOU SAY, NETTERS?  ARE WE TOGETHER ON THIS?
	WE COULD CAUSE SOMETHING TO HAPPEN!!!


					- Tim "The Head" Bessie

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