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From: piet@mcvax.cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: What to do with unknown newsgroups.
Message-ID: <1540@mcvax.cwi.nl>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 14:43:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 17 14:43:39 1987
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Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
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	>Does anyone still think that the unknown groups should be preserved or
	>should a future patch remove the unknown newsgroups?
Remove 'em. I see no reason to preserve newsgroups that aren't
received locally (or that aren't even received in e.g. Europe).
On the contrary: it's utterly confusing if such newsgroups are
preserved. That's also exactly the reason why we worldwide
checkgroups control messages are unwanted: large parts of the
world do *not* receive all newsgroups.


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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
	(piet@cwi.nl  or  mcvax!piet)