🚀 go-pugleaf

David Blackwood (dave@revcan.ca) wrote:
: In article <hermae.30.000DFE91@parl.gc.ca>,
: Reform Party House Leader <hermae@parl.gc.ca> wrote:
: >I am posting the 14 part Taxpayers' Budget as proposed by the Reform Party 
: >yesterday in the House of Commons.
: >
: >The document is browsable on the WWW at:
: >
: >	http://www.reform.ca/HoC/budget
: >
: >
: >For more information:
: >Brad Farquhar (613) 995-7226
: >hermae@parl.gc.ca

: If it's available on a web server, then that's all you need to say.
: It's not necessary to post a 14 part document like this!  Further, I
: believe that this would be more appropriate to can.politics.  It was
: never the intention that this newsgroup would be for the purpose to
: partisan politics.
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I agree that this was an too large amount of data to post in a
newsgroup. However, a web site doesn't make it to many rural locales.
(in this case, rural can mean anything outside the local calling
areas of larger cities.) You should probably also put in an email 
accessible infobot. As it stands, numerous rural people will have 
spend numerous long distance dollars apiece to get this rather large 
chunk, whether they wanted it or not. It is likely to have simply 
pissed off many people.

A web site and infobot can simply be annouced in the newsgroups to
allow people the choice of whether or not they wish to pay to transport
the information to thier own site.

--Randy
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