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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
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Subject: Re: Emergency Newsgroups
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Date: 19 Feb 90 05:28:20 GMT
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> However, it seems to happen about once every 2 years that there is a
> need for an "emergency newsgroup".

Like comp.periphs.scsi?  Yeah, I can see the big rush for this ...

> but alt.fusion did not wither away, and still exists, perpetuating the
> distribution problem in theory

We are very well connected in the altnet and have not received any
articles for that group, which I removed here within a month of the
creation of sci.physics.fusion.

Dave