Re: de.rec.fahrrad FAQ part 0

Snakes of Medusa (mathew@mantis.co.uk)
18 Feb 1994 15:15:04 -0000

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In article <9402181350.AA08197@bolognese.mit.edu>,
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> >Technical point... there is no valid "de" Distribution.
>> Then start one.
>
>You are free to propose it on de.admin.news.misc or de.admin.news.groups.
>I see little chance of you succeeding, but you can try.

Aren't you listening? You don't *have* to propose it. You just start
using it. Those who want the distribution will accept it, those who don't
will drop it.

>Of course, there is a technical solution to your problem. If you
>seriously do not want to receive any of the de.answers postings, you
>can unsubscribe to news.answers and subscribe to all of
>{alt,comp,misc,rec,sci,soc}.answers.

And then in six months' time we can have the entire argument again,
when someone posts German-only FAQs to comp.answers. (Atari ST FAQ in
German, anyone?)

No, I'd prefer to have the problem fixed properly, starting now.

mathew

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