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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc,rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Cross posting to news.misc
Message-ID: <5755@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 18:45:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.5755
Posted: Thu Sep 24 18:45:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 17:49:10 EDT
References: <1266@mucs.UX.CS.MAN.AC.UK> <1252@homxc.UUCP> <1583@killer.UUCP> <4018@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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Keywords: History, foo, bar
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In article <4018@well.UUCP> booter@well.UUCP (Elaine Richards) writes:
>First saw the word "foo" in a comic strip called Smokey Stover.

It appears that the arguments against calling the news group for
discussion of the of the usenet software "news" were correct.  It is now
being used as a "misc.misc" group because the name is misleading.

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.
				Jerry Aguirre