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Subject: Re: hoo boy! (never again) - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 23:23:35 EST
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uokvax!andree    Jan 28 23:45:00 1984

No, I didn't miss laura's point. She apparently overlooked my suggestion
for what should be done with groups that fall into the catagory of:
"small but offensive to some" - in other words things that generate
<12 letters a year, but won't go anywhere else for some reason or
another (does net.rec.nude qualify, laura? I haven't looked...)

These should be moved out of USENET entirely, and become mailing lists
ala the arpa-net lists (info-micro, info-cpm, etc.). Since they are small,
maintanence shouldn't be much of a problem. Even forwarding messages by hand
shouldn't be to hard, given a semi-reasonable mailer (the v6 mailer and a
shell variable will do nicely, thank you.). I maintain a local micro list
that generates significantly more mail than the threshold I mentioned above
with no great problems (the user-base is smaller, though).

Since there's already a list of currently active newsgroups, we even have a
ready-made place to announce lists, etc.