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From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: You've Been Unsubscribed From Perl-Users
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Date: 12 Dec 89 20:45:51 GMT
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| From: Marc Rouleau <mer6g@virginia.edu>
| Subject: IMPORTANT: You've Been Unsubscribed From Perl-Users
| 
| If you want to subscribe to the new Perl-Users digest, which will
| contain exactly the same stuff as the newsgroup comp.lang.perl, you
| need to let me know even if you are currently subscribed to the
| Perl-Users list.
| 

I would suggest you *not* automatically unsubscribe the old list -- at least
not until _after_ the newsgroup (comp.lang.perl, isn't it?) has been in
operation for a while.  The overlap will allow time for the "newgroup" news
control messages to a) propogate, and b) be acted upon by sites that choose
to _manually_ create new newsgroups.

[Propogation can sometimes take upwards of a week.  I have no estimate on 
manual newsgroup creation time, since this depends on human intervention. :-)]

I think the _overlap_ I propose will yield a much smoother transfer.

Thank you,
-- 
John G Dobnick
Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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