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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: ont.general,ont.uucp,can.general
Subject: Re: storm arrives -- impending newsgroup cuts
Message-ID: <6080@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 17:14:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 17:14:32 1985
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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The slightly-revised list of further potential cuts in newsgroups is
as follows:

	net.music	except net.music.synth
	net.audio
	net.abortion
	net.movies
	net.women
	net.sf-lovers
	net.origins

The changes are the addition of net.origins, the stay of execution on
net.auto (which has dropped off seismo's top-25 chart), and the exception
for net.music.synth (which can be argued to have technical relevance to
the computer-music people).  Together these groups approach 20% of the
network traffic.  Unless coherent arguments are advanced as to why we
should continue paying for them, utzoo will cease transmitting these
groups Long Distance on Friday 1 Nov 1985.  We are willing to continue
redistributing them locally, but this will depend on somebody else
bringing them up from the US.

I am starting to feel really hostile towards net.sources.mac, especially
since it's now #1 in volume, but there have been enough anguished screams
about the possibility of losing it that I'm not going to act on my feelings
about it... yet.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry