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From: laura@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.abortion,net.misc,net.motss,net.origins,net.philosophy,net.politics
Subject: Re: reorganization of soapbox newsgroups
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Date: Sun, 25-May-86 09:49:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 25 09:49:50 1986
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Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Why reorganise anything?  Currently, if you don't like paying for net.abortion,
net.misc, net.motss and so on you can edit your /usr/lib/news/sys file.

Mine looks like this now:

	ME:all:
	ptsfa:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.ptsfa:F:/usr/spool/batch/ptsfa
	well:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.well:LF:/usr/spool/batch/well
	sun:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.sun:L:
	lll-crg:ba,ca,to.lll-crg:F:/usr/spool/batch/lll-crg
	lll-crg:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.lll-crg:LF:/usr/spool/batch/lll-crg
	proper:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.proper:L2F:/usr/spool/batch/proper
	rtech:ba,ca,to.rtech:F:/usr/spool/batch/rtech
	rtech:net,mod,na,usa,ba,ca,fa,to.rtech:LF:/usr/spool/batch/rtech
	
And Henry Spencer's and Greg Woods' probably look like:

	ME:all,!net.abortion,!net.misc,!net.philosophy

and so on.  I went on vacation and was worried that the disk would overfill, and
so had this set up for a while.  

So the idea that we need to reorganise the net to keep sites from having to pay
for groups which they do not want to receive is bogus.  Anybody who does not
want to receive groups can already set things up to not receive them.  What it
does do is to make it easier for people to not recieve groups which *other 
people* have decided that *they should not want to get*.  And this is a step
in the wrong direction.   For some reason, some people have an idea that it
would be better if my site kept receiving net.sports.all and net.music.all
(which, the last time I looked, nobody on this site has been reading for months)and stopped getting net.religion which people here *are* reading.  Consistency
is the buzz-word here.  But the question remains -- of what value is 
consistency?  Of course, questions of value are primarily philosophical and
religious questions, so, naturally, a lot of the people whom I think should
be asking themselves these questions are uninterested in them.
-- 
Laura Creighton		
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