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From: nwinton@btnix.UUCP (Neil Winton)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: fonts newsgroup
Message-ID: <695@btnix.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 10:08:43 GMT
References: <2711@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1988Mar3.210010.4147@utzoo.uucp> <900@ima.ISC.COM>
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Keywords: why?
Summary: You have my vote...

From article <900@ima.ISC.COM>, by trb@ima.ISC.COM (Andrew Tannenbaum):
> In article <1988Mar3.210010.4147@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> No, creating the newsgroup will not magically create discussions in it.
>> This sounds plausible in theory but it doesn't work that way in practice.

	[Many good reasons for comp.fonts deleted]

> A netnews group would be a good forum to discuss this problem, whether
> or not uninterested parties think the discussion bloom at a rate that
> pleases them.  I just hope we get enough votes.
> 
> 	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Boston, MA   +1 617 247 1155

As someone who might not be able to make much contribution to such a group
on the technical level, but who takes an aesthetic interest in matters of
typography/calligraphy/font design, you have my vote.

	Neil

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