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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: NEWS.GROUPS.WIZARDS (Was: Re: rec.aquaria exists (was Re: late votes for *.AQUARIA)
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Date: 20 Dec 89 10:04:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)

In article <37407@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
 `
 `So now, can we go argue about something important? Better yet, can we be
 `quiet for a while?
 `
 `I've got one: why don't we start a discussion about rmgrouping news.groups.
 `Seems to me 95% of the postings in news.groups are worthless. We could
 `likely do without it completely and do just as well as far as creating
 `groups are concerned. There's very little discussion and a lot of noise.

I have a better idea: Let us create news.groups.wizards. This will probably
absorb all the nonsense, flames, wars and other garbage postings, keeping
news.groups relatively clean. At least I suppose the people that are now
polluting news.goups wouldn't like to admit that they are not wizards. Each
site could then have the option of redirecting it to /dev/null.

:=)
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