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From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: deleted & added newsgroups
Message-ID: <799@erix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 12:03:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 12:03:00 1985
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Reply-To: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden
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>	>I enjoy net.politics and post articles from time to time.

In article <589@mcvax.UUCP> piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) writes:
>You can keep posting. But all of Europe is paying for your hobby and they
>sure don't like it.

If that's the attitude I suggest you turn off ALL non technical groups.

How can you justify nlang ??????

>
>	>Please don't turn off the tap before we have a chance to debate this
>	>properly!!
>It has been turned off already; right after the discussion I had in Paris
>with the backbone site managers, specifically on the topics mentioned above.

In other words what you did was to send out a message to the net just before
the Paris meeting, travel to Paris and discuss the matter with the backbone
site managers and turn of the tap imediately afterwards. You
gave Eunet no chance at all to discuss the matter. It's not only the backbone
sites who pay for the net. We pay our share to our local backbone. Don't you
think that it would have been fairer to give all sites a few days to state
their opinions? 

(aside:

I know you do a lot of work to keep the net running. Please don't think we
are not grateful.

edisa)

International political exchange of ideas may be a hobby. But I think it is
a very important hobby. The problem is that net.politics is cluttered with
masses of rubbish. Filtering out the articles which are interesting takes 
time. This situation is not unique for net.politics, other news groups are
just as bad.

I have urged before for a newsgroup for international politics. If we could
get such a group created, would you be prepared to forward it? Or would you
also consider it to be just a hobby?

Mike Williams