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  2. From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.config
  4. Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: moving alt.vampyres -> alt.horror.vampyres
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.095501.44909@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
  6. Date: 18 Nov 92 09:55:01 CST
  7. References: <Bxv8zJ.MqA@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Nov17.182531.8648@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <Bxvq5y.2uE@unix.amherst.edu>
  8. Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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  10.  
  11. In <Bxvq5y.2uE@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
  12. >[statements about keeping alt.vampyres where it is deleted] 
  13. > I have difficulty taking those statements seriously, since you don't
  14. > bother to justify them with examples of how the move to alt.horror
  15. > would hurt alt.vampyres.
  16.  
  17. One good reason is that we would end up with two vampire groups.  Some
  18. systems would alias them one way, and some would alias them the other,
  19. and some would carry both groups, and some would carry one but not the
  20. other.  That would lead to fragmentation of the discussion. For
  21. examples of problems caused by attempts to rename groups see:
  22.  
  23. alt.rush-limbaugh/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,
  24. alt.dragons-inn/alt.pub.dragons-inn/alt.games.dragons-inn,
  25. alt.transgendered/alt.sex.trans,
  26. alt.bbs.waffle/comp.bbs.waffle,
  27. etc
  28. -- 
  29. USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
  30. E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444 
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