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From: john.rees@dial.pipex.com (John Rees)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk
Subject: US/Euro message duplication
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:40:42 GMT
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I am sure I am not the only person to notice a high amount of message
duplication across the Yaroze newsgroups. An especially noticable
redundancy is the presence of American and European groups that
discuss exactly the same topics. At the moment everybody has to scan
both sets anyway, just in case something is only posted to one.

I remember an old post that mentioned the problem that the American
site has to be monitored more carefully to avoid legal problems. If
this is the only real difference between the US and European groups,
then why not delete the US groups, and just hold discussions in
European groups. Please believe me that I am not trying to be
euro-centric here, but just trying to cut out wasted time.

I know this sort of message is likely to start up lots of argument,
especially the sort that goes along the lines of "We don't need
newsgroup A.B but must have newsgroup X.Y", but I think it would be
more useful if for now we can just discuss the US/Euro duplication.

John