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From: rblieva@cs.vu.nl (Roemer Lievaart)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here"
Summary: Why POEMS but not N-Ireland (for instance)
Message-ID: <938@tjalk.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Jan 88 18:50:49 GMT
References: <693@brandx.rutgers.edu> <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <610@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> <716@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: rblieva@cs.vu.nl (Roemer B. Lievaart)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam, but opinions below are my own.
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Excuse: Really, my english didn't get any better since my last article

webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) typed:
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| In article <610@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>, dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes:
| > ...
| > But what about when it IS the backbone that isn't passing the newsgroup?
| > This discussion started because of postings of poems in misc.misc from the 
| > UK.
| > ...
| > such postings from Europe or not?     If so, then misc.misc probably IS the
| > most appropriate group we share in common.   
| 
| Are you claiming:
|     a) that posting a poem from Europe to NA is cheaper than posting a poem
|        from NA to Europe
| or
|     b) that the wishes of mcvax should simply be bypassed by posting
|        into misc.misc.  perhaps we should all cross post everything to
|        misc.misc.  actually, news.misc would probably be a better
|        place to cross post miscellaneous news (although apollo sources
|        belong in news.groups).
| 
| ------- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)
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No. I'm really sorry to say this, but what you typed is rubbish.
What was asked, is not: "shall we make misc.misc into a poems-group"
but "do you really mind if we in europe SOMETIMES post a poem onto
misc.misc."
Just face it: lots of americans liked the poems, 
and there are probably more people skipping this discussion or the
discussion on N-Ireland than people who skipped the poems.
And these discussions cost the net
a lot more than those few poems. Just because
someone said "I hate poems" and noone yet said: "I hate the N-Ireland-
discussion" suddenly it is SO bad to post a poem to misc.misc!!!

Well, let ME tell you something. I HATED the sports-discussion that was
on misc.misc a while ago. Now that was a lot of articles! My 'N'-button
is lame, by now...
So now anyone who posts anything about sport is damned for ever.

C'mon people... let's face it, it's just a prejudice against poems
that is much more important than all the "reasonable" arguments
brought up yet.

And I don't think mcvax wants no poems; I just think it is trying
to save money. Which is quite something different.

But let's keep happy anyway...

	Roemer.
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