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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.general
Subject: Re: The war on drugs (really, where this discussion goes)
Message-ID: <3239@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 13:22:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 13:22:22 1986
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Excuse the followup to net.general.

In article <3874@brl-smoke.ARPA> abc@brl.arpa (Brint Cooper) writes:
>Please keep this discussion in net.general.  Some of us work at sites
>funded by public money.  At such sites, groups like net.rec..xxx and
>talk.xxx are filtered from the users because they are not relevant to
>our "official" duties.

Net.general is not a catch-all - it is intended as a forum for items
of interest to the ENTIRE user community.  If you WERE to choose a newsgroup
for this purpose, net.misc might serve better.

In any case, if a site chooses not to carry a particular newsgroup - that
is their prerogative, and you are free to seek employment elsewhere.  Please
do NOT clutter up newsgroups that you CAN receive with inapproprate junk:
The whole point of the newsgroup system is to allow users to subscribe
(or unsubscribe) to discussions that they are (un)interested in.  Would
you prefer it if your employer chose not to receive "net.general" anymore
because of the volume of "drug related" traffic?!

If you want to discuss a topic, and your site does not receive the approprate
group, either 1. start a mailing list, 2. petition your employer, or 3.
subscribe to compuserve (or any other pay Bulletin Board service) that
allows any access you want (since you are paying for it).