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From: pozar@well.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: FidoNET Newsletter, Volume 3, # 39
Message-ID: <1951@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 15:15:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 18 15:15:44 1986
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In article <2422@watmath.UUCP> gamiddleton@watmath.UUCP (Guy Middleton) writes
:
>Is it really necessary to post this in net.mail?  These 'Fidonet' things
>are huge, and have nothing to do with mail.  I'm sure a more relevant group
>could be found for them (for instance, a subgroup of mod.mag).
>__
> -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo MFCF/ICR


   Hmmm.  I guess since I'm the main culprit to this, I should respond.  
   There seems to be two complaints to posting the FidoNewsletter here.
   1] Size
   2] Some of the ads are strictly commercial, in nature.
   
   After some prodding by Erik Fair (he even wrote me a batch file to process
the newsletter), I posted a couple of newsletters on the mail, and net news
groups.  I received some mail containing the complaints above.  I passed those
pieces on to Erik.  He responed by saying that the size is inconsequential.
And the commercialization is NOT outlawed by the guidelines.
    Someone earier asked if this could be moved to a new newsgroup for 
Fido.  If that is so, how would that be done?  Since I am getting most of my
mail from overseas, will this restict this information to these places?
   Is there a moderator for this group?  How does he feel about this posting?
  
        Tim Pozar
        pozar@well.UUCP
        Fido 125/406