Goodbye

2014_5001 at uwovax.uwo.ca 2014_5001 at uwovax.uwo.ca
Thu Aug 24 00:52:33 AEST 1989


In article <1989Aug20.052345.7773 at i88.isc.com>, rayd at laidbak.i88.isc.com (Ray Dueland) writes:
> In article <633 at cbnewse.ATT.COM> mea at cbnewse.ATT.COM
>>The reason AT&T has pulled the plug [on alt.drugs] is because of the
>>possible negative media attention that they would get if it were discovered
>>that they supported a netnews group that contained information on
>>cultivating marijuana etc.
> 
> I, for one, am going to cross post all my alt.drugs postings to comp.sys.att.
> My experience has been that when certain groups or distributions are not
> supported, only postings that are exclusively withing that group are
> deleted.  Cross-posting to a "legitimate" newsgroups will preserve the
> posting.  May turn out to be a bit of the Sampson complex, but what is news
> without alt.drugs?

You do that and we'll cross-post from talk.religion.* to alt.drugs.
This would produce a lot of wasted bandwidth.

Don't do it, please.

Satan @ uwovax.bitnet       |  Yes, you know me quite well by now.



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