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From: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: BADGE January 1990 Meeting POSTPONED; Please Read
Summary: USENET mailing list. Is this possible?
Keywords: BADGE, USENET, overload...!
Message-ID: <15573@well.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 90 18:47:58 GMT
References: <25846@cup.portal.com> <7345@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian Witt)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <7345@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> doug@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (douglas.sulpy) writes:
>In article <25846@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>> NOTICE:  the BADGE meeting scheduled for Jan.17, 1990 at Foothill College
>> ...has been temporarily delayed.
>
>Damn. And I was planning on driving out from 'Jersey :-).
>... Is it possible to restrict such meeting notices to the appropriate area?

I don't know much of the mechanics of USENET, but would it be possible
to set up a mailing list to distribute BADGE meeting information?  I
can tell you from being there myself, that not one person showed up
between 7:10 and 8PM weds night (I think I look like the fool, now).
Mailing lists exist already for low bandwidth groups.  BADGE meetings
would be a great candidate.  Pre-release rules for BKDC's could be
sent out for comment over this channel, also.

Usually I'd read all them amiga.tech messages, but last weekend it
was "let's play rewrite the device loader" for my hard disk; a
unsuccessful attemp, but I digress...  I'm off to school soon, and
I'm not sure of my hookups.  A mailing list could be good as it
would send messages directly, and no one would have to screen out
the noise from the important info.  This could be a great gain for
FIDOnet'ters, too.  Perhaps a gateway to MCI and compu$erve might
even occur....!  People in 'Jersey could even find out what is
happening in the _real_ world of computers :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

--- "I have a dream..."   Martin Luther King, Jr.
--- brian witt
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