🚀 go-pugleaf

Ahhh... euthenasia. It's your call.
At least it'll kill an occurence of that call your MP now dreck.

... better do it quickly - I can't watch.

John van Gurp
ab008@ccn.cs.dal.ca

David Blackwood (dave@revcan.ca) wrote:
: For the past 16 months I have been the moderator of can.gov.announce.
: During that time there have been 55 postings to that newsgroup, seven of
: those were postings by me of the posting guidelines.  There have
: probably been as many or more postings that were rejected for not
: meeting those guidelines.  Clearly being the moderator of the group is
: not an onerous task however I don't feel that the volume warrants the
: continued existence of the newsgroup nor of its sister discussion group
: can.gov.general.

: The can.gov.announce and can.gov.general newsgroups were intended to
: facilitate the exchange of information between government departments
: and government employees and the public.  can.gov.announce was created
: in part to move this traffic out of can.general.  However, this traffic
: has largely dried up as the government has discovered the web.

: The discussions in can.gov.general tend to be crossposts from
: can.politics, can.general, and every other regional *.general group
: around.  They don't need this additional home.

: Therefore I respectfully suggest that these two newsgroups be removed.
: -- 
: David J. Blackwood
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