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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: humanitarian request
Message-ID: <14451@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 13 Nov 90 07:25:59 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <10177.apple.net@pro-angmar> m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) writes:
> Too bad that there's jerks around.

It's also too bad that people (not meaning you) don't think before posting
such articles as the "humanitarian request".  There are newsgroups where
such articles would be appropriate, but this is certainly not one of them.
If everybody were allowed to post without regard for topic subdivisions,
the USEnet would quickly lose its last vestige of utility.  And the idea
that it was "for a good cause" is no excuse; we all have our own pet
causes, for example religious ones, but it would utterly spoil these
newgroups for almost everyone were we to try to espouse our causes in
the entire set of accessible newsgroups.

Hopefully we can get back to Apple II discussions.