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From: 6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier)
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Subject: Re: a newsgroup for the discussion of non-commercial radio
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Date: 21 Jan 90 01:06:43 GMT
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From article <8597@stiatl.UUCP>, by meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal):
> In article <3626@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier) writes:
> |From article <9001171735.AA13398@prism.gatech.edu>, by dsrekrg@prism.gatech.edu (Rob Gibson):
> |> This is a call for discussion on the creation of a new newsgroup
> |> to provide a forum for the discussion of non-commercial radio.
> |There is a new mailing list for just this purpose. Perhaps we should wait
> |to see whether it warrants traffic before making a new group for it.
> Nah. Let's go for the group.

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but that's not the way things work. Standard
practice is to start a mailing list first. It may not be in the guidelines
(I honestly don't remember), but it's standard practice.

I'll vote against it until the mailing list gets a decent amount of traffic.
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