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From: sph@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (S.P.Holmes)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc
Subject: Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here"
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Date: 21 Jan 88 10:39:01 GMT
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In article <118@falkor.UUCP> heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes:
>David Wright (dww@stl.stc.co.uk) 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.

Yes remember this discussion, well perhaps I can give a perspective
from this side of the lake which might explain why some european
postings appear in strange newsgroups.

I started work, i typed 'rn' and up popped a list of newsgroups.
that - to me is my world perspective on the net -.
I see some subset of the total groups, but don't know what is outside that
subset.
Therefore when I post my soon to be written masterpiece on liontaming,
I post to misc.misc since we don't get, and I don't even know if there is
rec.sports.liontaming (and how can I be sure that there's a rec.arts.dangerous
to crosspost to).

So this guy writes some poems, and puts them in the only place where they
can't cause offence (as far as he can see). He's certainally not crossed
any of the major rules in the newusers announcement (No heavy crossposting,
no heavy quoting etc.

It really depends upon your perception of the world. Intelligent people
will take the most appropriate means availible to them.
Hannibal crossed the alps using elephants, helicopter gunships would've
been better; carthage didn't hae helicopter gunships.
Mr Clark from Bath posts his poems to misc.misc, rec.poems would be 
better; the english don't have rec.poems.

NB mcvax has never told us that peoms are contrabrand info they appear willing
to deliver.

AS a counter example, we get a lot of for sale notices which have
leaked across the atlantic. U.S.A. is a big place, and I assume that
distribution loses a lot of its meaning when most news is from the one nation 
anyway.

Hope this can promote some international understanding.
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