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From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: deleted & added newsgroups
Message-ID: <795@erix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 10:52:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 10:52:12 1985
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In article <569@mcvax.UUCP> piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) writes:
>It turned out that quite a lot of people wanted to get rid of the
>newsgroups net.jokes, net.misc and net.politics; see the discussion
>about this on eunet.[general,followup].
>On the other hand there was considerable interest in net.nlang.
>
>Therefore the first 3 newsgroups will be stopped by the end of this
>week. I'll send out a control message on eunet to create net.nlang
>to make sure that newsgroup then on those sites receiving net.all.
>If your site doesn't get net.nlang from mcvax but you're interested
>in it, ask your systems manager.

I PROTEST. I PROTEST. I PROTEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We still havn't seen a proper discussion of what the problem is.
Is it the costs or is it that people are fed up with contents of these
groups? I enjoy net.politics and post articles from time to time.
If people don't like the contents then why not unsubscribe to the group.

I'm posting this to net.politics as well so that our friends on the other
side of the Atlantic also have a chance to protest.

The only longterm solution is to start some special newsgroup for world
politics, net.politics.world ???? Even then I suspect that we would miss
many interesting debates. Eg the handgun debate is relevant to us in Europe
just so we can see the problems we should avoid.

Piet, Please don't turn off the tap before we have a chance to debate this
properly!!

Mike Williams