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From: wlinden@dasys1.UUCP (William Linden)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here"
Message-ID: <2390@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 16:21:18 GMT
References: <202@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <793@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <2495@sfsup.UUCP> <603@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> <1987Dec27.015006.1547@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: wlinden@dasys1.UUCP (William Linden)
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I understand concerns about, e.g.. Star Trek articles being crossed
wholesale to other groups. But how can you possibly claim that
something does not "belong" in misc.misc? If someone, somewhere, starts
a group for X, do messages about X instantly become taboo here, even
if his distribution comes nowhere near me? Were articles on Lake
Wobegon once permissible, then become forbidden the day rec.arts.wobegon
was created, then become lawful again when it folded? What does
"misc.misc" mean?
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