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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: I think "na.forsale" is bogus and should be removed
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.160439.26846@rpi.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 89 16:04:39 GMT
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In <2235@promark.UUCP> mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) writes:

Mark> I read it also.  And besides whats the big deal if it has low traffic?

The big deal is that "na" is a regional distribution category, not a
hierarchy.  It has poor distribution because a lot of site admins know
this.  I never even heard of this bogus group until this discussion,
though maybe I saw it in some B News documentation and forgot about it.

The group is unnecessary.  A posting to misc.forsale with an "na"
distribution should accomplish the same thing.  As Richard Salz
suggested in his original article, it should be removed.

Dave
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