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From: tim@oucs.UUCP (Tim Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics,net.news.group
Subject: Re: How about a temporary net.libya?
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 07:44:46 EDT
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> 	There has been so much talk about the Libyan air raid on all sorts
> of groups (politics, general, followup, etc) lately that I think we should
> create a temporary group to isolate all the traffic.  This was done with
> net.coke when new Coke came out (net.coke *did* get removed, didn't it?) so
> why not with this stuff.
> 
> 	There have been some suggestions in the past to create a temp
> distribution for this type of stuff; temp.libya would suit me just fine.
> Presumably, the brou-ha will settle down in a few weeks, and we can rmgroup
> it then.
> -- 
> Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
> 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

I wholeheartedly agree. I'm sick and tired of paging through all the articles 
with a Subject of 'RE: Air raid on Libya'. If and when this group is created,
I could unsubscribe to it, and not listen to everyone and his brother spouting
off. Very good suggestion, Roy.

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