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From: woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Announcement of unmoderated sources mailing list.
Message-ID: <718@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 16:32:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: hao.718
Posted: Fri Jun  5 16:32:12 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jun-87 00:42:05 EDT
References: <965@vortex.UUCP> <7946@utzoo.UUCP> <7947@utzoo.UUCP> <34@auscso.UUCP> <2266@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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Summary: If you don't like the way we do things, don't use us. No one is forcing you.

In article <2266@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Net.sources is already there.  You didn't delete it when the backbone
>told you to, did you?  70% of the net didn't, and ihnp4 among many
>other sites is still carrying it.  All it needs is for people to
>post to it instead of complaining about its absence.

  This is a very good point. There is nothing to stop anyone on the net
from carrying whatever groups they want. On the other hand, there is
nothing to force anyone, including the backbone, to carry any particular
group either. If you are unhappy with the newsgroup structure that most of 
the backbone has decided to carry, nothing is stopping you from carrying 
whatever groups you want using non-backbone feeds.  Certainly a much more 
constructive thing to do than the constant bitching I keep reading about 
what the backbone is doing. 

--Greg
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