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From: pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: <insert pet peeve here>
Message-ID: <2717@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 13:48:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: wateng.2717
Posted: Thu Jul 25 13:48:17 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 07:26:47 EDT
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Reply-To: pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

A modest suggestion for cutting down net traffic [ (:-))**0.5]:

Quite often, a discussion starts with an article whose subject is "blat".
We then get a 3 week discussion, all articles of which have the subject
"Re: blat". Why not have the news  discard all articles with "Re: blat"
after the first two dozen, say.
	-peter
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   - peter bain
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