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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: misc.headlines.unitex moderator RESIGNS
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Date: 18 Nov 89 05:42:59 GMT
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misc.headlines.unitex had one of the highest volume/reader ratios on all
of USENET, at least on the dreaded arbitron sites.  It was a huge pile
of stuff (60K/day) sent to many thousands of sites, and read by less than
one person for every three sites it went to.

Now the content may indeed have been highly valuable to those reading it,
(or else why were they reading it?) but that's true for all groups and if
we have people parading around to get this group back after it's been
rmgrouped, I see even more clearly why we will never rmgroup a single
group through the net concensus method!

Unitex should probably stick to it's own hiearchy, like biz, clari, gnu,
etc. were only people who ask for it get it.

Also, brief email with James Waldron, the Unitex director, showed him to
be pompous and quite ignorant of USENET (ok, so that's nothing new) and
I am not at all surprised to hear that Patt got fed up.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473