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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: More Backbone Newsgroup Cuts
Message-ID: <1936@hao.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 16:30:09 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.1936
Posted: Mon Feb  3 16:30:09 1986
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  Due to economic reality (specifically, the management zeroing in on how
much the net really costs at a time when we are experiencing a severe
budget cut due to the Graham-Rudman bill), hao is going to go the way of
utzoo and drop some newsgroups. net.flame is already dead here and has been
for some time. The rest of the soapbox groups account for over 25% of the
total net traffic. We have had discussions on the subject locally (i.e.
involving all the sites "downstream" from us) and the responses I got indicate
that very few people actually read any of those groups and even those that do
support cutting them to save the net in Colorado. Therefore, the cuts will
be made here. The affected groups are net.abortion, net.religion, 
net.philosophy and net.politics (and their subgroups). The neighboring site
admins will be getting mail requesting them to stop sending us those groups.
On Thursday, Feb. 6, the articles in those groups will be purged from our
disks and the lines for them removed from the active file. I regret any
inconvenience this may cause to anyone, but the alternatives available
are even more unpleasant.

--Greg
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