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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: A USENet domain (was Re: Domain Charters)
Message-ID: <15208@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 27 Feb 90 15:48:10 GMT
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In article <103276@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>I am sorry folks, deciding what names to give to newsgroups just isn't
>what USENET's about.  Oddly, reading news.* seems to give me the impression
>that everybody who posts here thinks it is.

Sigh.

If you want to read about toy boats, read rec.toy.boats.  If you want to
read about cooking or VMS or astronomy or APL or tai chi, go read the
appropriate group.  But if you want to read about news administration
issues, read THIS group.  And newsgroup naming is an important
administration issue.
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