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From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Proposed group: net.politics.nukes
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 13:50:24 EST
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Here in Europe, the problem is getting net.politics at all. At present it
seems that the people at mcvax are about to turn off the tap at the end of
this week. The problem is (perhaps) the large trans-Atlantic transmission costs

What we need to get it turned back on is a "filtering out" of those
articles which are not of world wide interest (ie mainly North American Local
polics). This would mean that things like the handgun debate would get the 
chop (and I would be sorry to see it go). Groups such as nukes are obviously 
of world wide interest. 

The solution as far as Europe is concerned is one of the following:

  Create as many sub groups of local North American interest as possible, so 
  that net.politics (the main group) contains only items of international
  interest.
  
  Create a net.politics.world which would be transmitted to Europe, but 
  net.politics would not.
  
Both these cases mean that net.politics.nukes would be unsuitable, so my
vote for net.politics.nukes is NO!

--Mike Williams

(mike@erix.UUCP or ...mcvax!enea!erix!mike)