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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: BADGE January 1990 Meeting POSTPONED; Please Read
Keywords: BADGE, USENET, overload...!
Message-ID: <627@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 90 17:11:11 GMT
References: <25846@cup.portal.com> <7345@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <15573@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <15573@well.UUCP> aleks@well.UUCP (Brian Witt) writes:
>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? [...]
>Mailing lists exist already for low bandwidth groups.

Apparently you have two aims with this. The first seems to be agreeing
that these notices shouldn't be posted widely, which is pointless (A)
in light of Thad's reply on the subject, (B) because these notices
are infrequent enough that it's idiotic to worry about it, and (C) because
the discussion on the subject has already created enough volume to
wholly overshadow the original notice.

Your second aim seems to be to request direct notification because you
can't always read the group. This sounds reasonable, and anyone who
wants to can create a mailing list simply by mailing to a list of
people any time they feel like it. Request this at the next BADGE
meeting, maybe you can convince someone to do so.
	Doug
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