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From: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: New newsgroup?
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.161438.25961@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 16:14:38 GMT
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In article <3476@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> peraino@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Bob Peraino) writes:
>IMHO, there really isn't THAT
>much hack type stuff out there to warrant this anyway; we're not
>exactly overrunning the newsgroup.

Depends on what you mean by hack stuff, and there are large fluctuations,
but my guesstimate is about 50% of the 48SX postings.  (Less during the
frenzies of postings re: equation card offer and re: upgrading revisions
A to D, but those presumably were (are) atypical times.)

>     Let's face it. If a .hack type  newsgroup spins off, you KNOW you're
>going to read both, anyway. 

YOU will.  I probably won't.  Please speak for yourself.



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