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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Suspicious Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.014737.5711@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Nov 89 01:47:37 GMT
References: <4239@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <4239@nigel.udel.EDU> by berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill):
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| In article <6985@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
| >The primary reason for creating a newsgroup is excessive volume in an
| >inappropriate group. Or didn't you know that?
| 
| I see.  So where was all the excessive volume when the net first
| got going?
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Since you insist:  The CURRENT primary reason for creating a newsgroup is
excessive volume in an inappropriate group.  I assume that you can understand
that the needs of the Usenet were different back when it was just Duke and UNC
instead of half the known universe.

++Brandon
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