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From: ken@turtleva.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Whatever happened to usa.all?
Message-ID: <245@turtleva.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 16:13:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 16:13:12 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Nov-83 23:28:52 EST
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A while ago, there was some discussion about having a usa.all type
group so that European and other overseas sites wouldn't have to pay
for long distance calls for information that doesn't interest them.  On
our machine there aren't any usa.all or na.all newsgroups for posting
articles of interest only to those in the United States or Europe.

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we have ba.all local groups.
Although the groups ba.bicycle, ba.food, ba.general, ba.music,
ba.news.config, ba.news.group, ba.singles, ba.test all exist, most of
them are dead except for ba.general and ba.test.

I would recommend that we start at least a usa.general newsgroup so
that there is at least one place that USA-oriented news can be
submitted.

			Ken Turkowski
		    CADLINC, Palo Alto
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