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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Proposed New Newsgroup - comp.sources.shareware
Message-ID: <17849@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 2 Feb 90 16:16:09 GMT
References: <17825@rpp386.cactus.org> <1202@utoday.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service
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In article <1202@utoday.UUCP> greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>John, why not wait until the dust settles, a new newsgroup called 
>comp.binaries.shareware is created and *then* opt not to carry it
>or distribute it to your leaf nodes?

Because political statements made post facto are ineffective.  What
most people hope for is no one to do anything.  By taking off the
binaries newsgroups I have quite clearly demonstrated that there will
be administrators willing to remove those newsgroups when the group
is created.

I have no doubt the group =will= be created.  I also have no doubt
that most of the postings will be cross-posted to the .binaries group
for the particular platform the machine is aimed at.
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