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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: news.billboard
Message-ID: <37116@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Dec 89 07:38:36 GMT
References: <1076@utoday.UUCP> <810@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal) writes:

>In article <1076@utoday.UUCP> greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:
>>I propose that a new group be formed, the purpose to be a simple posting
>>area for pointers to interesting discussions.

>Great idea.  I vote that we call it "mod.ber".

Chip probably should have explained for the (relative) newcomers that
"mod.ber" was, back before the Great Renaming, exactly this kind of group.
It failed miserably, and that was with much less volume, many fewer groups
and smaller audiences. Today, news.billboard's likely to be a disaster. The
only remote hope would be to make it moderated in some form to enforce a
no-followup/no-duplicate rule, and even then....

(who'd be willing to moderate the thing? And define 'interesting'?)

chuq

-- 

Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

When it comes to matters ourside your specialties, you are consistently and
brilliantly stupid [....] with respect to matters you haven't studied and
have had no experience basing your opinions on casual gossip [....] and
plain misinformation -- unsuspected because you haven't attempted to verify it.
	-- Robert Heinlein to J.W. Campbell, Jr. 1941