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From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: Is this group necessary?
Message-ID: <7501@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 09:07:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 09:07:04 1985
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In article <610@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) writes:
>It has been brought to my attention that net.nlang.africa doesn't
>seem to be supporting any separate discussions -- they are all cross
>posted with (from) other newsgroups.  For instance, ...
>  [some examples]
>Is there really a need to keep net.nlang.africa when everyone is using
>other groups anyway?

In most of the examples you mentioned, net.nlang.africa is the only 
newsgroup that I subscribe to.  I am not usualy interested in discussions
in net.nlang.india or net.music for example, but I am interested when
the discussion has some bearing on Africa.  At the very least
net.nlang.africa provides some "extracting mechanism".
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