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From: mazlack@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Lawrence J. &)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: What happened to the INFO-MAC digests?????
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 16:11:54 EST
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>All of these moves were dicussed under our noses in net.news.groups, but
>no notice was sent to the readers of the groups that were removed. Plus,
>The new names will kill most sites still running "notes" software because
>of the long names. 

I think that having to read something like "net.news.groups" just to
protect your behind defeats the purpose of having special purpose
groups.  I suspect that most of us already have too much to wade through
on a narrow focus group.
   ...Larry Mazlack