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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Votes with many NO votes (Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines)
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Date: 28 Mar 89 21:02:51 GMT
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I said that the namespace of the net is not an unlimited resource.

In article <2556@splut.UUCP>, jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
> To the software limitations, I think Larry Wall said it best, in the
> BUGS section of the documentation for rn (file rn.1):
> 	"There should be no fixed limit on the number of newsgroups."

There should be no fixed limit on personal wealth. Where is my Ferrari?

> After all, how often have you seen a message,
> cross-posted to 17 newsgroups, starting off with, "I don't know where
> this goes, so I'm posting it here..."?

Generally because there are too many groups already out there that seem
appropriate.
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