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From: bch@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Byron C. Howes)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: comp.women -- moderated groups and the naming hierarchy
Message-ID: <5293@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 88 03:52:57 GMT
References: <5274@ecsvax.UUCP> <23922@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Reply-To: bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <23922@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>In article <5274@ecsvax.UUCP> bch@ecsvax.UUCP (Byron C. Howes) writes:
>>The proponents of comp.women, myself included, would like to see it in
>>the comp.* set because, frankly, it gets better distribution.  As the
>>sysadmin of a site which takes only a limited feed of "serious" groups
>>(comp,sci,news) I see this as a valid concern.
>
>Right!  You want to trick some people who have decided they don't want
>non-technical talk groups into carrying them for you.

I see that the venerable usenet habit of incomplete quoting of articles
is alive and well.  In the paragraph which followed the one you quoted
I said exactly what you said -- I have no desire to trick anyone into
carrying anything for me that they don't want to carry.  I thought I 
fairly presented both sides of the question.  I think you owe me an
apology.


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