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From: howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Europe leaves net.politics in disgust.
Message-ID: <534@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 13:05:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 13:05:47 1985
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"Well, the true reason Europe cut off net.politics (together with net.misc
and net.jokes) was high volume, low contents.  However, just before
Europe left these newsgroups I stumbled across a quote from a Don Black.
At first I did not believe my eyes, so I grepped through all articles in
our spool directory for the text 'Black', and true enough, a number of
articles appeared."

The high volume/low content of net.politics (and net.religion, I might add)
is what prompted me long ago to unsubscribe to those newsgroups.  Not only
that, but we expire articles in those two newsgroups after 6 days so
we have room for the rest of the news on our disk.  I'm just glad our news
feed is a local call.