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From: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Newsgroups: Best solution yet. :)
Message-ID: <20846@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 89 19:12:20 GMT
References: <2704NMBCU@CUNYVM> <3104@com50.C2S.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services
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In article <3104@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> craig@com2serv.c2s.mn.org (Craig S. Wilson) writes:

>Just think of all of the disk space saved by not having messages
>bitching about group names, distribution, charters, etc.

Good point!  Look how much "bandwidth" is "wasted" on these types of
messages.  No one (before) has ever complained about it.  Yet, when one
of the users of unix.cis.pitt.edu puts a couple of "@" in their
signature, root and postmaster are flooded with mail messages
complaining about the horrible waste of "BANDWIDTH".

Think about how much traffic is passed in the news.groups flames-wars
(oops, I mean "votes").  I would be nice to have a dynamic news system
where "groups" would come and go.

Terry
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