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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics,net.news.group
Subject: Re: How about a temporary net.libya?
Message-ID: <1441@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 20:10:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 20:10:19 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 11-May-86 04:17:21 EDT
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In article <243@oucs.UUCP> tim@oucs.UUCP writes:
>> 	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.
>
>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.

I don't think the net can react quickly enough to make this kind of solution
viable.  It takes two weeks for the discussion to become obtrusive enough
for it to be recognized as a reasonable subject for temporary group.  (News
moves slowly, and the greatest volumn is in follow-ups.)  Another week is
required for the decision to be made to create the newsgroup, and another
week or two for the new group to spread through the net, and for people to
start using it.  By that time, interest has waned, and the number of
articles is way down, anyhow.

How many articles ever got submitted to the Coke(tm) newsgroup, anyhow?

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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