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From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Missing Persons Newsgroup
Keywords: try again.
Message-ID: <433@scorn.sco.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 18:08:51 GMT
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news.groups's own jbaltz@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman) said:
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-In article <2230@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> shoulson@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Shoulson) writes:
->(I forget who the original poster is, but..)
-
->>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?

Because that's what soc.net-people is for.  (And should *only* be for...not
for discussions on the plural(s) of alumnus.  Sigh...)

-If it isn't, mail to system or
-operator or root or something equivalent (anything I'm missing) should get
-somebody's attention. 
-
-It beats posting to world asking "is Joe Schmoe out there?" Certainly less
-bandwidth wasted. 

You mean you should mail to every postmaster at every site and ask "is Joe
Schmoe out there"?  Talk about wasted bandwith.

-When the vote comes, receive my *no*.

It already exists.  There won't be a vote.  So get down off your high horse
before it rocks back too far...

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