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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
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Date: 28 May 91 21:42:21 GMT
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mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:
>sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>>>Which is more valuable -- the "guarantee" that no old news will reappear, or
>>>the "guarantee" that people's postings will get out to the net?  I'd say the
>>>latter.
>> 
>>I'd say the former.
>Then you presumably have a rather strange idea of what the purpose of Usenet
>is.

And you have (a) a rather quaint notion of just how "little" old news there
is, relative to the carrying capacity of poor, overworked little modems, and
(b) a curious notion of the overwhelming importance of 99 44/100 % of what
gets typed to USENET...