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From: bantz@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: FLAME Re: Net.*SOURCES*.mac
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Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 21:55:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 21:55:00 1985
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I don't understand the logic here.

If every contribution is to be useful to all or even most users of UNIX,
what's the point of having special interest groups at all?

If contributions are suspect whenever they might possibly provide any economic
benefit to the contributor, then fa.laser-lovers (because it has a lot of 
traffic from commercial houses and their paid consultants) and fa.arms-d
(because a significant portion of the traffic here is lobbying by defense
contractors - and not for any $10 voluntary contributions, either!) and
net.ai (because a large portion of that groups' news is discussion of/ads for
commercial applications, expensive tutorials, and special-use hardware) better
go *first*.  Incidently, contrary to what some have implied in discussing
net.sources.mac "commercial" does not apply to anything that might possibly
have (even very small) economic benefit; rather "buying and selling of goods,
especially on a large scale..." and "distributed in large quantities for use
by industry" according to my dictionary.

If any material not directly relevant to UNIX systems per se is objectionable,
why on earth aren't you objecting to net.jokes, net.origins (distinct groups
for some reason), net.politics, net.suicide,...