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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: news.software.c
Message-ID: <1989Oct29.052106.4964@rpi.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 89 05:21:06 GMT
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In <2374@stl.stc.co.uk> dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes:
DW> We could put it to the vote again - but perhaps better put up an
DW> alternative first; let's have a news.software.c

As stated and re-affirmed by Messrs Spencer and Collyer, they don't
really want a news.software.c.  This of course wouldn't prevent the
rest of the net from deciding that they do want it but it is worth
some consideration.

It also seem quite likely that the multiple news.software.* groups
would see a lot of crossposting.  There are a lot of topics that are
suitable for discussion in news.software.b, news.software.c and
news.software.nntp concurrently.  The overlap is just a little too
great and there really doesn't seem to be need to split.  My personal
opinion is that a good news admin should not only be familiar with his
software but other software in common use around USENET.

I would like to see quite the opposite of news.sofware.c.  Merge
news.software.b and news.software.nntp into news.software.

Dave
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