mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (05/08/86)
I have created the group net.politics.terror for discussions about terrorism, and about the events involving the US and Libya in particular. This is a temporary newsgroup, ala net.misc.coke. I should have created it immediately, and because I didn't, discussion has broken out in several other newsgroups, including net.followup and net.politics. If and when traffic dies out, the group will be removed. If and when net.politics is renamed talk.politics, this group will go with it. Everyone who is currently discussing this subject in other groups, please move the discussion to net.politics.terror immediately, so that those who don't want to discuss it can avoid it. This is easy to do - when you follow up, just edit the Newsgroups line to read Newsgroups: net.politics.terror While you're typing in your message. (If for some reason this reaches you before the newgroup, and you can't follow up to net.politics.terror, ask your SA to create the group locally with inews -C.) If for some reason you are in a part of the net that does not carry net.politics, that decision applies to net.politics.terror as well. To those of you who will continue to see discussion in other newsgroups, please remember that it takes 1-3 days (and in some cases up to two weeks) for a message to go from noe end of the net to the other, and that a grace period of an additional two days or so should be allowed for this action to take effect. So it's fair to expect the discussion to die down gradually, and be gone in a week. After a week, if you still see this discussion in the wrong place, and it bothers you, please send a polite note, by email, to the author(s), asking them to move the discussion to net.politics.terror. Please do not make the situation worse by following up to the net. Mark Horton