Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: New News (not GNU News) Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 03:19:09 GMT References: <1603@intercon.com> <14853@well.UUCP> <1610@intercon.com> <2203@prune.bbn.com> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: rsalz@bbn.com's message of 7 Dec 89 20:32:30 GMT In article <2203@prune.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: I think that one particularly interesting problem about netnews is that it is such a dynamic database -- a megabyte a day of turnover. But is that good or bad? We've all seen the same old subjects get rehashed and rehashed. The nice thing about Usenet is that if you miss a topic of discussion, wait. It will be discussed again. Perhaps people would be more careful about what they said if they knew it was going to be around permanently? -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989. I think killing is value-neutral in and of itself. -- Gary Strand, 8 Nov 1989. Liberals run this country, by and large. -- Clayton Cramer, 20 Nov 1989. Shut up and mind your Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner. -- TK, 23 N.