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From: gsmith@brahms.UUCP
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Subject: Which newsgroups are "useless", and what is a sopabox.
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 11:22:24 EDT
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In article <3709@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP writes:

>It can very easily be proven that more people get more demonstable use from
>net.micro.mac than the people punching it out in net.religion get from their
>group. Why, then should people try to keep around a useless group and 
>kill off something useful in its place? 

  OK, if it can "easily be proven", then prove it. You could get torn to
shreds over in net.philosophy for saying stuff like this. That is why 
net.philosophy is useful. On the other hand, I can easily "prove" that
net.sf-lovers and mod.mag.otherrealms are useless parasites, and should
be eliminated. Care to show I am wrong?

  Can you or anyone define "soapbox group" in a way which makes sense?

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
ucbvax!weyl!gsmith       "DUMB problem!! DUMB!!!" -- Robert L. Forward