From: P D H (pdh@netcom.com)
Date: 05/03/93


From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H)
Subject: Re: VOLUME ON comp.os.linux GETTING LARGE
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 06:10:39 GMT

daniel@austin.ibm.com (Daniel Supernaw-Issen) writes:

>2. Breaking up the newsgroup would disenfranchise alot of fidonet people.

They should fix fidonet.

>3. ALL your problems with the volume can be remedied with a threaded
> newsreader
> such as trn. If you don't have it, get it. It is absurd that because YOU
> (not the personal you but the general one) don't take it upon yourself to
> look into viable solutions (threaded news readers, kill files etc) YOU
> would
> be willing to disenfranchise alot of people.

There are other groups with more traffic and most people are able to deal
with it quite well. I even read some of them. So I have to agree with the
above as well.

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