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From: bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce King)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.mail.uucp,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy
Summary: newsgroup creation guidelines
Keywords: make it harder to create backbone supported groups
Message-ID: <9195@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 20:28:57 GMT
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Reply-To: bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce King)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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  I like the idea proposed to tie the continued viability to the newsgroup
to its readership, but I'm going to point out that one of the most-hated
(the newsgroup most often mentioned as disliked) alt.sex is also one of
the top 25 newsgroups (as per news.lists)

  I agree that the 100-more-than-no-vote rules currently in place don't 
cut it.  There are just not enough people who care enough to read these
groups and vote NO, and too many people who'll post virtually everywhere 
in search of a YES vote.  Given that there are 14,000 posters this week
I'd like to see the yes/no tied to THAT number, not to some fixed arbitrary
number, like 500.  I'd like to say that the YES votes must outnumber the
no votes by at least 2% of the average number of posters in the month that
the vote was taken.  This will continue to work even as the network grows.
That would make it 280 yes votes to create a new group, and mean that it
was roughly 3 times harder to create a new group.  And as the network grows,
this number would grow as well. 


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