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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu + other emacs
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Date: 27 Oct 89 02:19:52 GMT
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sf1@rosemary.cs.reading.ac.uk (Fruitbat) writes:
>Is there any way to sort out the GNU and other emacs articles?
>I'm fed up of wading through lots of GNU articles all the time.
>
>Isn't there a gnu-emacs newsgroup? I thought there was.

Indeed.  I have just the opposite problem.  I'm only interested in GNU
articles here.  My KILL file gets most of the irrelevant ones:

  /uEmacs/:j
  /microEMACS/:j
  /jove/:j

Although, every now and then some joker finds a new way to spell uEmacs.

If your newsreader supports KILL files (as rn does), the following
should kill the majority of the GNU articles:

  /GNU/a:j

I would support an effort to keep all the GNU discussion in gnu.emacs.*
since reading both groups is sort of a drag.  What's gnu.all's
distribution like these days?  And more importantly, will The Man mind
non-devotees using GNU's newsgroups?

Alternatively, we could try to create comp.emacs.gnu.  In a way this
seems more fair, since the GNU content of the current comp.emacs and
gnu.emacs are somewhat different.

Any other ideas?  Maybe we could kick these around here for a few days
and then see what news.groups has to say...er, I mean shout. :-)

-- 
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