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Daryl McCullough <daryl@cogentex.com> wrote:
>On the one hand, if a lively discussion starts in a newsgroup, it
>seems a shame to shoo the participants away to some more appropriate
>newsgroup. We hang out in this joint because we like the people,
>and we don't want to go somewhere else and talk in front of
>strangers.

This is what email was invented for.

I'm all for some sense of community, but if raif continues
heading for a 5% signal-to-noise ratio [sic] it's not going to
be a community I care about participating in.

SeanB
