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Re: First draft of a potential uk.comp.sys.mac RFD. was Re: UK Mac newsgroup?

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:00
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see.sig <debbie@zoobotanica.nospam.com> wrote:

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> Seems long-overdue to me! Why so against any input from comp.sys.mac?

Because of the large volume of pointless postings.  If uk.comp.sys.mac
favoured cross-posting to those groups, I suspect it would soon fill up
with the sort of pointless and irrelevant crap[1] that made me
unsubscribe to comp.sys.mac.everything.

Rowland.

[1]  This is the bowdlerised version of my original thought.

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Subject: Re: First draft of a potential uk.comp.sys.mac RFD. was Re: UK Mac newsgroup?
Date: 1998/05/20
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