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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: April 1988 BADGE Meeting
Message-ID: <2195@antique.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 17:55:24 GMT
References: <4619@cup.portal.com> <594@io.UUCP> <4731@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Summary: Well isn't that special

Just what we need: "my-user-group-is-better-than-your-user-group"
wars.  There are several scores of user groups out there and I'd guess
that very many of them have access to Usenet.  Now sure, BADGE is a
fine group, but if we were fair and consistent, we'd see scores of UG
announcements every month.  Do we really need to burn up that bandwidth
for what (I'd say) is essentially a local function?  If we buy into the
philosophy that Usenet is a valid mechanism for acquiring new members
and guest speakers for UGs, and also summarizing each meeting so we'll
all see what a really neeto UG one has, we'll really get flooded.
Yeah, than we'll have to branch the newsgroup again:
comp.sys.amiga.ug.announce, ...ug.request, ...ug.lastmeetingsummary ....
I don't know.  Flame off.  My vote is, it's not appropriate for USA-wide
distribution.

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