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Re: Stupid reposting service (was Re: SLIP/getty/printers on Ter

#1752
From: Scot E Wilcoxon
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 19:16
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In article <9080@leadsv.UUCP> patw@leadsv.UUCP (Patrick L. Wigen) writes:
<	Lastly I don't want to have to remember or somehow try to
<figure out if I have already saved the sources in alt.sources from
<another news group. It is much less time consuming to know that the
<sources in alt.sources are mostly unique.

I got the impression that the reposting service is an interim measure
while encouraging crossposting to alt.sources.
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Scot E. Wilcoxon  sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG    {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco
Data Progress 	 UNIX masts & rigging  +1 612-825-2607    uunet!datapg!sewilco
	I'm just reversing entropy while waiting for the Big Crunch.
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From: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Stupid reposting service (was Re: SLIP/getty/printers on Ter
Message-ID: <24034@datapg.MN.ORG>
Date: 15 Dec 89 19:16:43 GMT
References: <9080@leadsv.UUCP>
Reply-To: sewilco@datapg.MN.ORG (Scot E Wilcoxon)
Followup-To: alt.sources.d
Organization: Data Progress, Minneapolis, MN
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