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From: acton@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Donald Acton)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: Meeting Notice
Message-ID: <2192@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 89 07:13:38 GMT
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In article <579@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
}	Who cares what people outside of T.O.
}	thinks about can.usrgroup anyway!

I thought that Rick's original point was who cares what T.O thinks!

But, more seriously, I think that if this news group is to serve a more
useful purpose its mandate must be clearly defined. As Rick Morrison
pointed out most postings seem to be idle chit-chat or announcements of
events in the T.O area, hardly stuff that warrants a national newsgroup.
Perhaps at the next "meeting" a discussion of this newsgroup and its
purpose would be in order. Maybe through discussions of this topic
here or at the meeting a way can be found to make this a useful group.
Otherwise I think it should be given the death sentence.

  Donald Acton