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SCK (sck@capitalnet.com) writes:
> Krishna E. Bera wrote:
> 
>> So, you come across a local person in a worldwide newsgroup, exchange email,
>> meet them in person, join a local club.  Why do you need the _local_ newsgroup?
>> Your answer follows:
> 
> The answer is embedded in your own first sentence. In a local group, I
> don't need to "come across a local person" as though it's good luck or
> an act of fate. You then ask why I need the local group, my answer
> follows, and you agree(!) with them, so why are you asking?
> 
>> You say create them based on NCF volume.  NCF's unique mix of content and
>> protectionism means those statistics are largely inapplicable to ott.* Usenet.
> 
> People keep telling me that NCF is unique but no one ever bothers to
> itemize why. How is the average person who logs on to NCF to read
> newsgroups different from the average person with an ISP who reads
> newsgroups? There must be some demographic you are using here to explain
> why an NCF user might need a local music sig but an OTT user would not.
> 
NCF is unique, because they have a policy of setting up local sigs that 
are only for NCF users. They seem to want to protect their users from
the big bad Internet. Sort of the cyberspace version of the CRTC. Who
keep demanding local content, while ignoring the rest of the World. I
think (IMHO) NCF closing it's ncf. newgroups from the outside world was
a reaction based on several anti- TorFreeNet posts that appeared on the
ncf.general newsgroup about 5-6 weeks ago. Not from one commercial spam,
although technically it wasn't spam, as it was posted to each group as
a seperate article, rather than a massive x-post.
 
 
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