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From: neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: S/N ratio of this newsgroup.
Message-ID: <360@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 22:07:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 22:07:36 1985
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I've just been paging through this newsgroup, and one thing occurred to me:
I am now thoroughly disinterested in Massachusetts' seat belt law, and could
care less what anyone thinks about it. Further flameage on this topic in this
newsgroup is beating a dead horse. 

I'd like to think that net.auto is the `Car and Driver' of Usenet, and
net.auto.tech is the `Hot Rod'/`Car Craft' derivatave. Thus, I'd like to see
these circular discussions of seat belts or the 55 mph speed limit or other
political issues be confined to nut.politics (where I don't have to sift
through them all) and any discussions here of these topics be terse, if
not nonexistent (like the fact that California, too, will have a seatbelt
law come Jan 1.)

Further, I'd like to encourage readers to contribute to this group directly
and *not* as a group in a followup newsgroups list, like net.flame tends to
be. Net.auto is one of my favorite newsgroups (yours too, perhaps) and I'd
hate to see it strangled by offal like the seatbelt flame and counter-flame.

Oh - and happy new year, net.auto-people (and see this article's parent...)

-Neal
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