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From: idallen@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: ont.singles
Subject: How do I read only Ontario articles in net.singles?
Message-ID: <11115@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 12:52:12 EST
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What news software lets me read net.singles and see *only* articles
posted to the Ontario distribution?

That is, if/when someone announces an ont.singles party, how can I tell
someone to "read net.singles" to find out about it without forcing them
to read everything in the Universe?  (Solutions that don't use the
existing news software, i.e. READNEWS or RN, aren't useful.)

Unless you can solve that problem, I think ont.singles has a "clear"
purpose.  But, since Mark thinks it should be "clearly" deleted, perhaps
the issue isn't "clear" at all?  (Can we drop that modifier?)

Until the news software catches up on the "reading" aspect of limited
distributions, local versions of Universal Groups should stay.  I read
all the local groups first; if I have time, I look at the Universal ones.
Don't force me to read net.general to find stuff that used to be in
wat.general, or net.singles to find stuff that used to be in ont.singles.

The volume of traffic in these groups is not an argument for their
deletion; it should be an indication that the groups are currently harmless.
I would hate to have to generate "filler" traffic to keep the groups
around, but if that's what it takes...
-- 
        -IAN!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo