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From: jesup@pawl8.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
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Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.tech vote ABOUT TO FAIL!
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Date: 2 Apr 88 21:21:59 GMT
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In article <8804020242.AA24241@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
[ He says that people are changing their votes because of xposting between
  comp.sys.amiga.tech and comp.sys.amiga. ]

	I have to disagree.  The reason that some people are xposting (and I
am not one of them) is because .tech only exists in a part of the net, due
to some backbone people deciding not to carry it until the new vote passes.
Many, many people can't read it.  This causes mass confusion as to where
things should be posted.
	Hopefully, after it gets to all the net, this will decrease.  And even
for now, if you have a reasonable news reader, you still will only see the
message once.  In fact, the .tech group has so far been fairly technical,
with discussion centering on stuff like IPC and hard disks.  The fact that
technical articles are posted to .amiga is something you will have to live
with Matt.  For now, many people have no choice.  In the future, some people
probably still will, but so what?  If you MUST read every technical article
on the net, then read both, and don't complain.  If there were only one
group, it would be all mixed together anyway.  If you want to cut down on the
amount of non-technical stuff you read (lack of time, for example), then
just read the .tech group, and live with missing some stuff.
	Sheesh!

(I do understand wanting to read everything, I'm an information junkie myself.)

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