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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Newsgroup creations and deletions
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 18:24:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 18:24:21 1985
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I agree with Lauren.   I thought net.general was, on balance, useful, and
I do not agree with it's undiscussed demise.   I admit to having recently
suggested ADDING a new group without much discussion (which Lauren then had
a partly-justified flame at me about) but to SUGGEST ADDING a group and to
ACTUALLY REMOVE one are two different things!!  

Please give us net.general back.   If some of the more sensible suggestions,
e.g. saying "are you sure you REALLY want to use net.general" with possibly
an offer to display list of groups, to reduce use of net.general were taken
up, the previous problem would be lessened (even tho' it would take a while
before most sites got the modifications to do this).