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From: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Enough is enough is ....
Summary: Gateway INFO-TeX into a new BITNET.* newsgroup
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.123841.15546@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 91 12:38:41 GMT
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George,

I've read the flames about admin messages being posted, and sympathise
with both your position as list-maintainer as well as those aggrieved
by the postings.  However, since you gateway all the INFO-TeX articles
into comp.text.tex, more than just the subscribers to your list are
being inconvenienced, but the readers of the already-established
comp.text.tex.

It would be better for you to create a new USENET newsgroup, say,
bitnet.info-tex, to gateway your list's traffic into, as is done with
many other BITNET lists.  That way, existing comp.text.tex readers,
who were happy with the list the way it was, can continue reading it
undisturbed, and can read your new list if they choose.  Remember, we
comp.text.tex readers are unable to unsubscribe from your list, since
we're not on it!

--dave
(David Osborne, UKTeX Digest editor && member of Aston TeX Archive group)