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From: doug@letni.UUCP (Doug Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.text,news.groups
Subject: Re: status of comp.text.dwb vote
Message-ID: <16110@letni.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 90 15:37:41 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.191346.5962@cbnewsl.att.com> <1990Nov2.003633.2801@ico.isc.com> <929@iiasa.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.text
Organization: Logic Process Unix Engineering, Dallas Office
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In article <1990Nov2.003633.2801@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>All WHAT dwb traffic???  With an 8-day expiration here, we've got 12 dwb-
>related articles, and 5 of them are yours!
>
>Neglecting the newsgroup-creation-related articles, it's about one article
>per day about dwb.  That just doesn't justify the group.  Even with my
>bias toward the subject, I can't see a justification.

Because if there was a "real" newsgroup in place you would get %sroff related
questions in it, instead of comp.unix.%s or comp.lang.postscript. etc.

Also my kill file for comp.text is one of the largest ones on this system.
This is to avoid haveing to wade thru the irrelivent muck about WordPerferated,
MicroshotWord, DvI, tEx, ..etc  


doug
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