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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
Subject: Re: proposed newsgroup for current events
Message-ID: <5624@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Jan-84 09:26:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 10 09:26:42 1984
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net.cur-events isn't exactly a newsgroup that would be the first to
come to mind when you wanted to discuss matters like those mentioned,
e.g. USA vs.SU, Grenada etc. True, debates like these have been going
on in net.followup (AND net.politics). There was a strong reason for
that: net.politics on its own doesn't reach Europe, whereas net.followup
does. Plus that the debate concerns Europe as well as the USA. Even so
many Europe sites don't get net.followup either, so the next step is
to couple that to eunet.politics TOO. That means every such article
will go to three newsgroups. And so on....?

Basically the old problem of some other newsgroups [as well] is cropping
up again: what we need is a group "world.politics", that should reach all
sites inside and outside the USA. So this is a proposal for it.
USA (and Canada) bound politics could then be left to the old net.politics
newsgroup, preferably renamed usa.politics or na.politics (maybe the $20
discussion could be moved there).
-- 
	Piet Beertema
	CWI (Center for Math. & Comp. Science), Amsterdam
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