🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Dqsryo.36r@revcan.ca>, David Blackwood <dave@revcan.ca> wrote:
>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.  ...  However, this traffic
>has largely dried up as the government has discovered the web.

And how is one to see when the government changes its web pages?  Is
there a central "What's New" URL at which they do commit that things will
appear?  Even if there were, how often would most of us surf it?  A
change to a random page, if not announced, is not going to be widely
disseminated too quickly.  One might respectfully suggest to these
government departments that Usenet news is the better mechanism for news,
while the web is good for other things.  I agree that the .announce group
has no purpose if they don't use it, but it is regrettable if that
appears to be the case.

I do concur that the companion group could go away without regrets.

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