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From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so...
Message-ID: <1054@utcs.uucp>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 20:13:41 EST
Article-I.D.: utcs.1054
Posted: Mon Jan 13 20:13:41 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jan-86 20:22:46 EST
References: <2390@gatech.CSNET>
Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
Lines: 19
Keywords: net.internat
Summary: 

In article <2390@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) writes:
>It still astonishes me to think about the amount of abuse that I
>received way back when because I dared try to "rmgroup" the group
>because it hadn't gone through the proper procedure for creation.  I
>was told in no uncertain terms that there was lots of interest and more
>than enough support to make it a viable newsgroup.  Right.
>
>Of course, maybe I missed it.  Maybe all the people who obviously knew
>so much used the group to solve all the international standardization
>problems, using just 120 articles (total we have ever received in the
>group) to do so.  Good job, folks.

This article strikes me as unnecessarily flippant.  I haven't been receiving
net.internat for many months at this point.  Therefore I have been unable to
contribute to it.  Simple, wouldn't you say?  I think the discussion in
net.internat was quite interesting & was very annoyed at its removal.

Alan J Rosenthal
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