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From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: Removing net.flame
Message-ID: <2134@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 23:25:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 23:25:37 1985
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Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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Net.flame currently reaches fewer people than do some of the groups
with less than a "net" distribution, including na.forsale, the "eunet"
groups, and very possible the "att" groups.  The checkgroups message is
supposed to be a list of groups with net-wide distribution.  Since over
half of the backbone sites won't even forward net.flame, I don't
consider it to be a net-wide group.  Therefore, I no longer list it in
the checkgroups message.

The checkgroups message is an advisory based on the list I keep.  If
you don't like the fact that "net.flame" is missing, either edit the
checkgroups message before you run it, or else define MANUALLY when you
compile news and then ignore the message checkgroups will give you
about net.flame.

Or simply stop running "checkgroups."
-- 
Gene "wedding done, thesis to go" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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