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From: tittle@alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Request for comments: news.avian
Message-ID: <1989Oct10.050136.2814@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 05:01:36 GMT
References: <35345@apple.Apple.COM> <2039@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
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Reply-To: tittle@alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle)
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In-reply-to: cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord)

In article <2039@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>, cyrill@scicom (Cyro Lord) writes:
|In article <35345@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
 [Chuq's news.avian proposal deleted]

|I'm so glad that we all will have to live with your name for this group.
|I know the rest of us can't think but are we really that dumb? Why this
|'news' name? Because Chuq wants this name. No to maillists, no to 'rec'
|even through birds don't need people to grow, people do this as a hobby.
|Enough 'bs' about this. Lets not go down this road as we will have groups
|named:
|news.games, news.soaps, news.tv, news.radio, news.etc ........
|As can be seen, Pandora's box lives in this name. But, one never knows.
|Maybe the rest of the net likes this name, not me and I still wish some
|good programmer would make the news software able to dump newsgroups
|into "/dev/null" if the active file has something like this in it:
|news.avian 00000 00000 !   or   news.avian !
|Putting this in the 'sys' file just sets the newsgroups files into
|'junk' and that not good enough.

ZAP!  OK, Chuq, one down, five to go!



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