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From: shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Missing Persons Newsgroup
Message-ID: <2230@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 00:33:17 GMT
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Reply-To: shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson)
Organization: Columbia University
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(sorry.  I missed the original poster's name) writes:

>I see occasional postings by people trying to locate other people. Why
>not create a new newsgroup called misc.missing.persons just for this
>purpose?

I may be missing something, but I don't think this will be very helpful.
Think about it.  Would you read this group regularly, in the hopes that
someone out there is looking for you?  Of course not!  The only time you'd
read it is if you had posted and are waiting for a response (and not even
then, because your quarry would presumably use e-mail).  The way people
would try to get in touch with you is to post to newsgroups commonly read
or which they think you'd read, because *nobody* is going to just read
endless requests for other people.

Anyone follow me?  Does this make sense?

~mark
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Mark Shoulson:  shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu   shoulson@cunixc.bitnet
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