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Aria wrote:
> 
> Well the wasff one if it still exists should have been extremely
> local.

The aus.sf.wasff group still appears on my news server, but the aus.*
Admin doesn't list it on their list of aus.* groups.  They've deleted
the group but most news servers wouldn't of recognised the deletion.

> WASFF is the West Australian Science Fiction Foundation (Backs our
> local convention - SwanCon)

According to DejaNews, aus.sf.wasff has *never* had traffic apart from
occasional spam and cross-posts originating in other aus.sf.* groups.

> Shouldn't have thought it would propagate outside of WA.

It didn't propogate that well here in WA either, it wasn't disussed
properly in aus.net.news resulting in an early creation.

Here is the control message sent out for the creation of aus.sf.wasff
in 1996:

> From: toivo@uwa.edu.au Tue Oct  1 06:30:17 1996
> Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mel.aone.net.au!
> news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!usenet
> From: toivo@uwa.edu.au (Toivo Pedaste)
> Newsgroups: aus.sf.wasff,control
> Subject: cmsg newgroup aus.sf.wasff
> Control: newgroup aus.sf.wasff
> Date: 1 Oct 1996 09:29:34 GMT
> Organization: The University of Western Australia
> Lines: 33
> Approved: toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au
> Distribution: aus
> Message-ID: <844162154.656802@ares.uwa.edu.au>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: ares.uwa.edu.au
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain
> X-Mailer: exmh nn-tk.9
> Cache-Post-Path: ares.uwa.edu.au!toivo@sage.ucs.uwa.edu.au
> Xref: uunet control.newgroup:17331
>
> I believe I have followed the general guidelines for
> requesting a news group so could it be done?
>
> Name: aus.sf.wasff
> Des: West Autralian Science Fiction and Fanticy
> Charter: To discuss items of relivance to the above and the convestions
> Moderation: none
> Cross posting: OK
> Formats: None
> Additional rules: None
>
> I did post a request for comments several months ago and received
> several positive replies and no negative ones.
> My direct mail connection went down (my end) and so I did not follow
> it up at that time but my connection is up again and wish to complete
> my task now.
>
> General info. Wasff Inc helps organise and run a least one major
> convention in WA (it may be a national on also) which is attend by
> between 200 and 400 people. Most of these people a have internet
> access and we felt this would be a good way to keep people informed
> and promote comment.
>
> I sent this to revdoc already.
>
> Luigi Cantoni <lui@stm0001.stm.com.au>
>
>
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