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This article is from the Rugby Union
FAQ, by roelofs@f2s.com (Mees Roelofs) with numerous
contributions by others.
1.3 Rugby Union History
Rec.sport.rugby.union (usually abbreviated to RSRU) was created along with
rec.sport.rugby.league, thereby ending the existence of the general Rugby
newsgroup rec.sport.rugby, which itself dated back to January 1991. This
was done to end long running flamewars between fans of the two codes. The
RFD for the two old groups to be split was eventually submitted by Paul
McNally on 24 July 1995. The proposal to create rec.sport.rugby.union was
approved by the great majority of voters (177 - 27), resulting in the
control message to be posted on 19 September 1995. See
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.sport.rugby-reorg
for the complete breakdown.
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