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From: aaa@link.UUCP (Wale Akinpelu)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: Is this group necessary?
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 09:37:26 EDT
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> 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, the last 2 weeks
> of postings contained the following newsgroup lines:
> 
>   13 Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.nlang.africa
>    1 Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa,net.music
>    1 Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa,net.nlang.india,net.religion
>    1 Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa,net.social,net.politics,net.religion
>   10 Newsgroups: net.nlang.india,net.nlang.africa
>    5 Newsgroups: net.nlang.india,net.nlang.africa,net.followup
> 
> Is there really a need to keep net.nlang.africa when everyone is using
> other groups anyway?
> -- 
> Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford
> The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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Gene,

I disagree with you completely. You should remember that one of the reasons for
creating this group was to pass any new information to interested parties. It
does not surprise me that people post the information in other
newsgroup.

While most of the issues that are been discussed could be classified into
other groups, it should be noted that they are unique because they focus
on issues only realted to african people. Certainly, you do not want people
to subcribe to all news group to scan for discussion on african issues.

I strongly urge to keep this group alive. For example, I have enjoyed
the discussion on african medicine which deals with natural method
of healing. I hope those who subcribe to net.med enjoyed the discussion
as well.


-- 
Wale Akinpelu
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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