Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!ssbn!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Fixing the unbroken
Message-ID: <57749@looking.on.ca>
Date: 6 Dec 89 23:01:51 GMT
References: <55499@looking.on.ca> <765@lakart.UUCP>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

In article <765@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
>Very probably soc.culture.korean will not get the readership that
>comp.unix.wizards does. Just because it plays to a smaller audience, is it
>any less a newsgroup?

No, not when comparing a group with 1 reader/machine to a group with
6 readers/machine.   But there has to be a line somewhere, where a group
is less worthy of complete-net-propagation if very few want to read it.
To paraphrase a joke from RHF, soc.culture.jewish.lesbian.civil_war_daughters
might have an audience, but it shouldn't be a newsgroup.


I am all in favour of drawing the line as low as we can as resources get
cheaper and cheaper.  But it does have to be drawn somewhere.  Topics
below that line simply have to become mailing lists, or groups with
dynamic distribution.

-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473