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From: kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.arts.erotica
Message-ID: <1989Dec27.165119.6342@talos.uu.net>
Date: 27 Dec 89 16:51:19 GMT
References: <2592700B.3216@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.uu.net
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Evan Leibovitch writes:
 > The intent of this group is to be a place where people can post ONLY:
 >   - original fiction of a sexual nature:
 >   - reviews, lists and pointers to erotic lierature available elsewhere.
 > 
 > REASONING:
 > 
 > There has been some frustration expressed with the present volume of
 > postings in alt.sex. There is a certain subset of the postings which
 > could be called 'erotic fiction', which a number of sites have expressed
 > an interest in archiving.

An alternative, at least for archiving sites, is to start up an .index
for alt.sex that indexed the relevant postings in alt.sex.  At present
no newsreaders know what to do with the data in index newsgroups, so
that won't help people reading news to sift through the discussion.