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From: guido@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.internat
Subject: net.internat
Message-ID: <6659@boring.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 12:36:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: boring.6659
Posted: Sat Oct 19 12:36:59 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Oct-85 00:40:59 EDT
Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 15
Keywords: net.internat, rmgroup, net.bureaucrats
Xref: watmath net.news.group:3913 net.internat:39
Summary: this is a useful group; let's keep it
Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL

I received notice that the net.bureaucrats wanted net.internat to be removed,
go moderated or be restricted to Europe.  Maybe the proper procedures
haven't been followed, but the need for such a group is obvious.
Restricting it to Europe seems contradictory to its purpose and smells
of ostrich-policy.  Europe is still the second-largest market for many
US-based hardware and software vendors!

It seems that a group like this would have a fairly serious audience,
so I don't see why the group should start off as a moderated group.
If traffic volume becomes a problem we can *then* go moderated, but I
don't believe this will be necessary.

Consider this article as a YES vote for net.internat.

	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (guido@mcvax.UUCP)