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On 17 Feb 1997 02:07:19 GMT, "Joe Hendrix" <Joe...@mail.utexas.edu>
wrote:

>> There shouldn't be a group for Diablo. GAMES.RPG IS the proper group for
>Diablo
>> posting, not the alt.games.diablo group. Why you ask? Because all ALT
>Usenet
>> groups are forever, that stupid Diablo group is going to on the Internet
>for
>> the rest of eternity cluttering up news servers well after every copy of
>> Diablo is sitting in closets and junkyards around the country. Alt groups
>> get low traffic and propagation for just this reason, idiots creating
>groups
>> for short fads just because they know how, without thinking of the long
>term
>> consequences. A growing number of sysadmins don't even want to deal with
>the
>> Alt groups because of this kind of short-sighted stupidity. This group
>> was created for RPG games, live with it. Create a killfile for Diablo and
>> SHUT THE HELL UP THE WHOLE LOT OF YOU!
>> 
>> Scott
>
>What the hell?  Cluttering up news servers?  How much hard drive space does
>text take up?  I could probably fit this entire group on a single floppy. 
>I can download the entire list of newsgroups (all 9000 of them) in under a
>second.  I mean I know its fun to act like an idiot occassionally, but
>really, grow up.
>
>This is worse bullshit than all that talk about scaleability.  Ever hear of
>Moore's Law?
>
>-- 
>Joe Hendrix
>Joe...@mail.utexas.edu
>ICQ UIN: 321046

When I download the 'entire' list of newsgroups I get somwhere in the
neighborhood of 24000.  Where did the rest of yours go to?
--
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