Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!ira
From: ira@netcomuk.co.uk (Ira Rainey)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk
Subject: Re: US/Euro message duplication
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:14:55 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <ira-2212971914560001@dialup-01-09.netcomuk.co.uk>
References: <67lto3$9ij2@chuka.playstation.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-01-09.netcomuk.co.uk
X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.3.5

> 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 agree totally, why can't we have just one global set of newsgroups,
surely that's the whole thing with the internet - breaking down distance
between people. It'd certainly stop me having to check all groups and end
up reading the same messages twice.

Ira