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From: OWENSJ@VTVM1.BITNET (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP - USSR  and Barry's flame.
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Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 10:18:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 10:18:49 1987
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>With all due respect to Barry, and he is due some, he does not have
>the power to disband this news group.  He could drop his subscription,
>and try to convince as many other people as he can, to go back to a
>mailing list(the previous type of forum for this topic, which I will add

Actually, info-futures is still a mailing list, although it is
bidirectionally gatewayed with a USENET group, and people (including
myself) do still receive it as a mailing list.  What Barry could do,
I suppose, is to stop gatewaying the group and the mailing list, and
let the group go on and do what it wants, and let the people who
are really interested in carrying on the info-futures discussion
stay on or resubscribe to the list.  I think that would be more
trouble that it's worth though; the most sensible thing to do,
in my opinion, is to go to a moderated (but *not* digestified)
format if the noise doesn't die down of its own accord.

        -John Owens
        Virginia Tech Communications Network Services
        OWENSJ@VTVM1.BITNET    owens@vtopus.cs.vt.edu