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From: astieber@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Too Much Traffic in this group
Summary: Just don't cross post as much
Keywords: Traffic, USENET policy
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Date: 30 Dec 88 21:08:50 GMT
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I notice that right now close to half of the messages are about alternatives
to the desktop metaphor. Most of these are articles are cross posted to other
groups such as comp.sys.next and comp.windows.misc. If these were posted only
to the windows group net traffic would be reduced.

I do agree that the comp.sys.mac has excessive traffic.
I do NOT agree that new groups are neccesary. The existing newsgroups may
be able to handle the extra postings. Until this is done I would not vote for
additional Macintosh newsgroups. However I would vote for comp.gui (Graphic
User Interface) or somesuch name.
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