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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!kadie
- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: [NOT A REPOST] Re: [news.sysadmin, et al.] Re: a.b.p.e. distribution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.161634.16537@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <BxGvt5.n19@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov10.81210.8239@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:16:34 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- morgan@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
-
- [...]
- >Please, please, PLEASE, can't you just say "there's an interesting discussion
- >over in news.sysadmin; check it out"??!!
- [...]
-
- I reposted those three articles because they provided new information
- and speculation about the removal of newsgroups at the U. of
- Washington.
-
- >It gets rather annoying to see articles two and three times, thanks to
- >such reposting;
-
- You should see the articles at most two times. I reposted only to
- alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk. The reposted article are marked to help
- you avoid reading them even a second time.
-
- [...]
- >(In this case, more sites carry news.sysadmin than carry alt.comp.
- >acad-freedom.talk, but we're reposting to the smaller group with the poorer
- >distribution!)
- [...]
-
- Although news.sysadmin has wider distribution, it does not have the
- same distribution. Almost 400 people read CAF-Talk and CAF-News via
- mailing lists. Moreover, CAF-Talk is archived, digested, abstracted,
- etc., while news.sysadmin is not.
-
- - Carl
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-