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From: hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer)
Subject: ambiguous newsgroups
Message-ID: <1991May5.114434.387@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 5 May 91 15:44:34 GMT
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> Now, either mathematicians shouldn't be allowed within two yards of a
> computer, or mathematicians should realise that uw.general is not, I repeat
> *not* a maths newsgroup.
>
> I can see how this might confuse some mathematicians, but uw.general is a
> University of Warwick general newsgroup. Not a maths forum in disguise.

Well, well, and I thought only University of Toronto had this problem.
ut.* is the structure of local University of Toronto newsgroups, as well as
the University of Texas. Sometimes unwanted Texas postings show up on our
system. It nows seems that uw.* (Waterloo and Warwick U.K.) has the same
problem. It's time someone gave the Internet some artificial intelligence.