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From: lenoil@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: FidoNET Newsletter
Message-ID: <242@apple.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Oct-86 03:02:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 25 03:02:47 1986
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Reply-To: lenoil@apple.UUCP (Robert Lenoil)
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In article <1638@vax135.UUCP> booth@vax135.UUCP (David Booth) writes:
>I don't particularly care if a new newsgroup
>is created for them, but I don't see any substantial justification for
>it, since the newsletters are only posted once a week.  That certainly
>does not seem like an unwieldly amount traffic for uninterested persons
>to ignore.

You are forgetting the converse argument.  I want to read the Fidonet
newsletter.  I do NOT want to read net.news.  I would like a separate
newsgroup so that I can ignore the unwieldy amount of traffic that net.news
generates.

No flames, please.  I'm not a news administrator.  So sue me.

-Robert Lenoil