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From: jgo@mcgp1.UUCP (John Opalko, N7KBT)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: unix-pc rmgroup due next week
Message-ID: <5025@mcgp1.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 19:00:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcgp1.5025
References: <53168@rphroy.UUCP> <100419@becker.UUCP> <1991May15.145918.13958@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991May16.053820.26650@chance.UUCP>
Reply-To: jgo@mcgp1.UUCP (John Opalko)
Organization: McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., Kirkland, WA
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In article <1991May16.053820.26650@chance.UUCP> john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) writes:
|>It is counterproductive to the goals and intents of the users of these 
|>groups that you, Mr. Becker, unilateraly decide (for no apparently good
|>reason, by your admission) to throw a spanner in the work. RMGROUP THEM
|
|I hate to sound like a shit-disturber, but don't forget, in spite of
|voting guidelines and all that, Usenet is essentially an anarchy, and
|if Bruce doesn't want to honour the rmgroup, well, so what?  That's
|his prerogative as a sysadmin, and it doesn't ``throw a spanner in the
|works'', unless a lot of people feel like he does, in which case the
|group might as well be kept around for those people.

Mr. Becker is free to keep whatever groups he wishes on his machine.  I just
hope he doesn't reply to every rmgroup message with a newgroup, as he is
(in)famous for doing in the alt hierarchy.

The rmgroup will be honored, and the groups aliased, here and on n7kbt.


			John Opalko
			jgo@mcgp1.uucp     (work)
			john@n7kbt.wa.com  (home)