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Article #6558Re: The "locality" of DC.* Usenet Groups.
From: Charles Packer
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <32f88aed.233175920@news2.cais.com>, Mark <Mark@worldcom.com> wrote: >few people from DC actually participate here is the incredible number >of off-topic, spammed posts that rapidly snowball with replies from >people from nowhere near the metropolitan area reading the crossposts >in other newsgroups. These type of posts account for dozens of >messages a day, the vast majority of traffic on the group. I'm curious as to the nature of your newsfeed. Do you use a reader such as trn and get articles from a remote server? Or do you dial up to a server and download in bulk? -- ========== http://www.cais.net/whatnews/whatnews.html ========= ========== Nine days of news at a glance =========
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f47cb,9cd543efe4b54cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf47cb,public X-Google-Thread: 105dfd,9cd543efe4b54cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105dfd,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,9cd543efe4b54cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: packer@cais.cais.com (Charles Packer) Subject: Re: The "locality" of DC.* Usenet Groups. Date: 1997/02/08 Message-ID: <5di0fu$kud@news2.cais.com> X-Deja-AN: 215312015 references: <199702041457.GAA13692@mailmasher.com> <32f88aed.233175920@news2.cais.com> organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> newsgroups: dc.general,dc.politics,dc.config