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From: fair@dual.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: A second for Phil Ngai's "two" nets
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Date: Wed, 28-Dec-83 22:44:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 28 22:44:03 1983
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I disagree. It is (at the moment) perfectly easy to cut down traffic
to those parts of the net which are technical in nature. The 2.10 news
system lets you send/receive any subset of groups you want.

A split like that would make it very easy for `management' (what a nebulous
term!) to cut out those groups which add spice to readnews (or `notes'
for the pagans...).

Besides, we'd have to have yet another *.news.group, and I don't think I
could take reading not only about what to call a group and whether it
should exist, but ALSO which net it should belong to!

Tactics like this look suspiciously like divide & conquer. Phil, has the
`management' of AMD gotten to you? :-)

	a news admin for the status quo (quid quo pro & caveat emptor),

	(also getting fat while being fed by AMD),

	Erik E. Fair	{ucbvax,amd70,zehntel,unisoft,onyx,its}!dual!fair
			Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California