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Recent News

One should avoid posting "recent" events--sports scores, a plane crash, or whatever people will see on the evening news or read in the morning paper. By the time the article has propagated across all of Usenet, the "news" value of the article will have become stale. (This is one case for the argument that `Usenet news' is a misnomer.(10))

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