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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: What *are* the can.* groups?
Message-ID: <1834@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 16:08:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1834
Posted: Mon Jun  1 16:08:25 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 01:09:26 EDT
References: <1421@ncc.UUCP> <2567@dalcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Distribution: can
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: can.* are useful

In article <2567@dalcs.UUCP> thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson) writes:
>
>	The traffic seems so minimal maybe we should just drop the
>    can.* groups and use the can distribution.

No, that's a good reason for *keeping* them.  can.* provide a
way of communicating with others in Canada, since they're
low-volume and therefore rarely unsubscribe to.

I've had a number of people tell me they find my postings
about income tax to can.general useful.  There would be no
way of reaching these people otherwise.  Few Canadians read
misc.taxes, since its content is almost entirely U.S. tax-related.
We've also had interesting discussions in can.politics over the years.

Our records indicate the can.* groups are:

can.general	Articles of general interest to all Canadian sites
can.ai		Artificial intelligence discussions
can.jobs	Job announcements, requests, etc.
can.politics	Canadian politics

The only one of these which might be a candidate for removal
is can.ai, which receives a quarterly posting about the Canadian
AI newsletter and not much else. Presumably all can.ai readers
subscribe to comp.ai anyway.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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