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From: mitzi@erix.UUCP (Mitzi Morris)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.news.group,eunet.politics,eunet.followup
Subject: Re: Net.politics to Europe, Lets start net.world-politics
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 18:53:45 EDT
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I think net.world-politics is an okay idea, but that a much better
idea is GETTING NET.POLITICS TO EUROPE!

This whole discussion about killing newsgroups is getting very stupid.
The majority of articles I have seen have been against any cuts, and
in favor of MORE newsgroups. These articles have been met with a few
vague rebuttals talking about "high costs" and unnamed sites who have
requested reductions.  WHERES THE BEEF???  Give me facts, figures,
and the ways in which you derived them.  Who says democracy doesn't
work Tues, have you tried it?

I think that getting net.politics is preferable to starting
net.world-politics for the following reasons:

1) It is very hard to define what is of domestic interest and
what is of world interest.  I think that the American presidential
race is of world interest, and I want to hear what people in the 
US are doing and saying about it.  But would this be posted to
net.world-politics?  Probably not.

2) The larger the readership a newsgroup has the more active it is
likely to be.  Would everybody who already subscribes to net.politics
also subscribe to net.world-politics?

3) In the past few weeks there has been some interest stateside in
having more international discussions in net.politics, a topic was
offered, and there were plenty of responses from Europe. This is what I
call evidence that Europe's participation in net.politics is welcome and
will be active.

More news is good news,

	Mitzi Morris  
	mitzi@erix.UUCP