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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: new apple2 newsgroup
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Date: 17 Dec 89 05:32:00 GMT
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I don't know if none-usenet sites get to vote, but I vote no because I
don't want to get anymore duplicates than I already have to read; you
know darn well there will be a high percentage of crossposting.  (Most
times one can't tell whether he's seen a message before without looking
at at least half a screenful.)  The problem is that, as someone else
said, what we want to eliminate is the "junk mail" and interminable
arguments on not very important topics (such as the Beagle thing);
splitting the group into a technical and general part isn't going to
help with that.

BTW -- I don't remember if in the proposal anyone has said how the
internet feed is to be handled:  create a new internet mailing list as
well to parallel the new usenet list?

P.S.  -- do you have any idea what the internet/usenet readership ratio
of info-apple/comp.sys.apple is?  There are as of last count 160,000
computers on the internet; somehow I don't think usenet is anywhere near
that.