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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Demise of net.general
Message-ID: <29@intelca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 20:11:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 20:11:14 1985
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> It has been decided to abolish net.general.  This group will be
> ... 
> James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

I'm sorry, I didn't know God had died and you were next in line.

But seriously folks, as you will undoubtably hear this has been
proposed before. (Although in never quite the way you mangaged)
And been agreed to by everyone concerned that it was not the 
way to go. Try this, since all of the people who care have 
unsubscribed to net.general anyway, just start mod.genral and
announce it in net.announce. Leave net.general alone so that the
kids can still have their fun and all of the reasonable people
will make a beeline for the moderated group. However, attempting
to send cancel control messages for net.general will certainly
overflow your mail box with so many flames the disk pack on your
system will spontaneously combust. Thus completely ruining your
very expensive hardware. You don't want to be responsible for 
that do you ?

--Chuck

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