Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!bbc From: bbc@nysa.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Give it up, folks Summary: Yeah, what Barry said Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 89 05:03:28 GMT References: <36339@apple.Apple.COM> <10119@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <36343@apple.Apple.COM> <1989Nov11.002535.21243@world.std.com> Sender: root@rice.edu Reply-To: Benjamin Chase Organization: CPRC, Rice University Lines: 39 In-reply-to: bzs@world.std.com's message of 11 Nov 89 00:25:35 GMT In a well-written and timely article, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) dispenses words of wisdom: [deleted for your viewing pleasure...] Amen. What really is wrong with creating many groups? IMHO, it won't increase traffic. Posters will post, regardless of whether the appropriate group exists. I doubt that actually having an appropriate group available will result in more postings overall, or that not having an appropriate group will result in less postings. However, we lack a method for removing and renaming groups, and making group creation easier will make the need greater for these two other things. I challenge the prolific posters of news.groups to solve these problems, rather than spending all your energy and keystrokes flaming at each other. ---------------------------------------- Also, in several weeks, some level-headed, non-partisan soul (if such a person exists) should call for discussion on the creation of: rec.aquaria - for the discussion of the recreational aspects of aquaria If alt.aquaria goes away, then I feel that we will need this group (_in_addition_to_ sci.aquaria!). A significant portion of the traffic in alt.aquaria falls under this topic. I don't want to read about John Berryhill's dying goldfish in sci.aquaria. ---------------------------------------- Thank you for your attention over these past weeks. Retiring to *.aquaria, etc., I remain, -- Ben Chase , Rice University, Houston, Texas (First one up against the wall when the fish police arrived.)