Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsm!mls From: mls@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (mike.siemon) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Give it up, folks Summary: comment Message-ID: <6463@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Date: 13 Nov 89 17:21:10 GMT References: <36339@apple.Apple.COM> <10119@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 In article , bbc@nysa.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) writes: > Amen. What really is wrong with creating many groups? Exponential growth of .newsrc files, that's what. Depending on what reading software is used, this may be invisible and irrelevant to some people on the net. But, as an inveterate browser who constantly scans and diddles with my .newsrc file, I find this has become an annoying problem in the last year. (It is similarly a problem, though less of one, that the name hierarchy is essentially useless in pointing me to groups I'd like to look in on.) Periodic purging of unused groups *might* be an answer, but what is a good cutoff point? less than 2 articles per month for 6 months? That would not matter much if the namespace were sensible enough that a discontinued group could be folded into a higher level -- but if uncontrolled group creation happens, you can be *sure* that there will be problems. -- Michael L. Siemon "O stand, stand at the window, ...!cucard!dasys1!mls As the tears scald and start; ...!att!sfbat!mls You shall love your crooked neighbor standard disclaimer With your crooked heart."