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From: gam@amdahl.amdahl.com (Gordon A. Moffett)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc,rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Cross posting to news.misc
Message-ID: <15056@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 17:50:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 17:50:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 03:23:57 EDT
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.amdahl.com (Gordon A. Moffett)
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In article <5755@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>News.misc sounds just like the place to put discussions of topics that
>don't fit into other groups very well.  We should have used
>"usenet.misc" or such.

So let's change it.  If we can get enough sites to agree to this then
we can replace the ambiguous 'news.misc' with a more meaningful name.
Perhaps all 'news.*' newsgroups should be renamed.

[ Followups to this go to news.group ] 
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Gordon A. Moffett                             gam@amdahl.amdahl.com