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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: deleted & added newsgroups (transfer to Europe)
Message-ID: <604@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 07:12:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 07:12:40 1985
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Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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	>I agree with Mike Williams. We were not given a chance to discuss
	>the matter of net.politics before it was taken away. The groups
	>we discussed were net.jokes and net.misc
You were given a chance to discuss *any* newsgroup; net.jokes and net.misc
were only given as examples of low content/high volume newsgroups. In the
news/mail discussion that followed net.politics was time and again mentioned
as such a group, which should be stopped as soon as possible.
Instead of stopping those groups on Mar 15 as announced, I've waited for
the meeting in Paris with the backbone managers to discuss it there in the
context of the costs, accounting and functioning of Eunet. And since it
was agreed that the mentioned groups were amongst the most expensive and
least justified to get here, I stopped them right after that meeting.

BTW, it's interesting to note that the only (loud) protests came from 
*one* (!) site only, whilst there are some 100 on Eunet.....

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
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