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 In article <20030926180148.08650.00000199@mb-m05.aol.com>, 
 Warren J. Dew  wrote: 
 >Jon, in case you're serious, here's my discussion: 
  
     Yes, I'm serious. Every time we've talked about splitting the group 
 before, people have thrown up their hands before even constructing an 
 RFD. So, one step further. It may well fail this time, of course. But if 
 so, at least an example will be around for future attempts. 
  
 >1. You should specify that any off topic discussion of politics, such 
 >as the constant trolls in the OT: Political thread, belong in the 
 >.politics subgroup, and not in the main r.a.d group. 
  
     Yes, good suggestion. Getting some folks to do so would be quite 
 challenging, as pointed out earlier in the thread, but achievable over 
 time. Heck, even E.W. gave up eventually, despite all those promises of 
 siccing the FBI on the group readership :-) 
  
     In the sci.space split we ended up calling the analogous subgroup 
 ".policy" rather than ".politics", which seemed to be a useful sop to 
 some strong personalities. Wouldn't quite apply here, though. 
  
 >2. otherwise okay as long as r.a.d does not get removed in favor of 
 >r.a.d.misc. 
  
     Agreed. 
  
     Jon 
     __@/ 
  
 P.S. I find having the RFD submitter address appear in news.groups good 
 for ca. 4 dozen additional virus spams/day. Yay for procmail. 
  
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