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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Temporary newsgroups
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Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 13:30:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 13:30:10 1983
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It will never work.  People will blindly followup the articles in
the original newsgroup, instead of moving to the new newsgroup
like they are asked to.  I have seen big flaming discussions
take place in 2 or 3 newsgroups at the same time, and killing
off one of them (to move to the other) is nearly impossible.
Look at the handgun debate, which started in net.general, moved
to net.followup and net.flame, and in spite of several attempts
to get it ALL in net.flame, stayed in both groups for months.
(It finally seems to have all moved to net.flame, but it took
about 3 months.  Most discussions don't last that long.)

	Mark