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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Possible group: net.news.weather
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 14:46:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 14:46:42 1985
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> In article <760@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
> >This network isn't a substitute for local news and information media!
> >To use it as if it was is wasting incredible amounts of time and money.
> Based on the articles we read, the network is a substitute for:
> 
> Newspapers, television news, libraries, telephone directories,
> doctors, lawyers, teachers, human companionship, magazines,
> and of course, work.  I think that there should be a weather
> newsgroup, only it should be for local weather.  That way
> we could tell what the weather was like during the days we spent
> indoors reading news.  This could include special postings at
> nightfall and daybreak.  The human body needs to know this for
> its daily cycles.
> 
Based on the typical netnews article, I suggest that net.weather ought to
be for postings on NON-local weather, i.e., I would post articles about what
I thought the weather in Southern California is (or should be) right now,
and people in California could discuss the probable weather in Florida.
And, of course, postings from people in Florida insisting that it is ABSOLUTELY
NOT snowing down there now (which we have already decided must be true) will
result in immense flaming...

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