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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: magic numbers (Really: votes fo
Message-ID: <3500008@ccvaxa>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 18:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 18:33:00 1985
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> In article <3500003@ccvaxa> preece@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
> >If it has no traffic, it costs nothing in phone bills.  If it has
> >traffic, it deserves to live.  The only valid criterion for existence
> >of a group on this net is whether people will/do use it.  

> Hmm....the fact that people use septic tanks and sewers seem to imply a
> valid criterion for their existence, but I sure am not going to spend
> any of my time and money to keep one in my computing center or my
> office./* Written 10:00 am  Sep  7, 1985 by spaf@gatech.CSNET in
> ccvaxa:net.news.group */
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What, no bathrooms in your computing center?  No wonder you're touchy.
The point was (and is) that it doesn't cost you anything to keep an
empty group on your system and (unlike the road in your metaphor)
it doesn't get in your way or diminish your enjoyment of your system
(unless you're horribly upset by the list of groups being n+m pages
instead of n).

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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