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Edward J Colgan (mredd@strato.net) wrote:
:  No.
: I am saying that NGs are established for a purpose, e.g., mi.misc was
: obviously set up to cover topics not covered in specific MI news groups
: such as mi.politics, which would only deal with politics pertaining to the
: state of Michigan.

     Being topical also helps folks find threads of interest rather than have
to search all of Usenet for articles they would like to read.  Why would
someone start a thread in fl.gardening concerning car traffic along I-95.  It
should be obvious without even looking at the groups description that it has to
do with Gardening in Florida.  Such off topic postings only serve as a
distraction for its intended purpose.

: 
: Vinny, if you bought a KJV, took it home and found that in addition to
: Christianity it had the Koran, Confucianism, Taoism, Rastafarianism, and
: Buddhism randomly interspersed among the pages of YOUR bible you probably
: wouldn't be to happy with your purchase. Understandably. So what is it you
: can't understand about NGs being dedicated to subject areas?
: 

    That is the best analogy I have seen yet. :-)  Regional charters are no
secret with the majority of them posted to their respective groups on a regular
schedule.  Many of them can be found online at
<http://www.unicom.com/regional/>  You can also do a search on dejanews for the
group your interested by searching with a searchterm of CHARTER.

Take care..

Carlos
Newsmaster@megalith.miami.fl.us