Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: let's quit propagating talk.bizarre
Message-ID: <58886@looking.on.ca>
Date: 8 Dec 89 22:21:40 GMT
References: <10511@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: rebuttal

In article <10511@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) writes:
>But what good would this do, Greg?  Even if you were to succeed in
>shutting down the newsgroup, the netters who post there would simply
>move to some other newsgroup.  Of course, I could be wrong, but I'm 
>willing to bet big bucks that that's what would happen.

This is a myth that gets said a lot.  Before net.bizarre was created
(in the create just by typing days) there was effectively no traffic
similar to what appears there in the other groups.  The group got
created, a few people started posting "hey, let's post bizarre things!"
and that inspired people to post what they otherwise would not have.)

There are many other examples.  There can be no denying that groups
create traffic.  They do not divert it, except in rare cases and moderated
groups.

Some groups create more traffic than others.  It is those groups that
got shoved into talk when groups were renamed.  For better or for worse.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473