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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: news.groups,misc.headlines,sci.misc,sci.physics,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Fusion newgroup proposal
Keywords: New newsgroup, alt.fusion, sci.physics.fusion
Message-ID: <487@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 89 08:32:12 GMT
References: <910@zorch.UU.NET> <546@cvman.UUCP> <7877@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Organization: Cold Lampin With Flav'
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In article <7877@pyr.gatech.EDU> steve%revolver@gatech.edu (Poppa Smurf) writes:
>You may not realize it but some sites are not able to receive any of the
>newsgroups under the prefix "ALT."  Ours is one such site.  Because of
>subgroups like alt.sex, etc. some administrators have rejected the entire
>range of newsgroups under the alt prefix.  

Then your site administrators should be soundly kicked in the disk
packs for throwing out the good stuff in the name of getting rid
of a little bad stuff.

/usr/lib/news/sys entries will accept "alt.fusion" w/o getting any of that
nasty, dirty alt.crap all over the good clean corporate image. :-)



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