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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: Where is general Pascal group?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.092422.12536@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <1992Nov11.104939.14727@jyu.fi> <1992Nov11.142012.9904@ericsson.se> <1e6qelINNni9@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:24:22 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1e6qelINNni9@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- >Why not just make your subject lines start with "TP: [blah blah blah]" so
- >people can kill-file the TP stuff if they want, and people who want to read
- >TP can "=TP" the articles. :-)
-
- Seriously, it is a nice illusion, but there is no chance of getting
- the users to abide. We do know these things from ample UseNet
- experience. They always collapse. If the users wish to have TP
- messages separately, the only operational choice is a distinct
- newsgroup. You can take my word for it.
-
- I repeat, to the kind readers of comp.lang.pascal. If anyone wishes
- to consider a separate newsgroup, first get someone to take it on
- and draw up a draft charter. The instructions are (still) in
- 63197 Oct 19 10:01 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/usenews.zip
-
- (I'm am not expressing personal preferences, just laying out the
- facts of UseNet life).
-
- All the best, Timo
-
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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