Xref: utzoo comp.graphics:17644 news.groups:31503 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ee.lbl.gov!jef From: jef@ee.lbl.gov (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.graphics,news.groups Subject: Re: Proposal for comp.graphics.research newsgroup Message-ID: <12650@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 30 Apr 91 18:52:44 GMT References: <1991Apr30.094435.2@minerva.inesc.pt> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Acme Software Lines: 30 X-Local-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 11:52:44 PDT In the referenced message, fmhv@minerva.inesc.pt (Fernando Manuel Vasconcelos) wrote: }I find that building a new newsgroup with the purpose of preventing some type }of posting is generally a bad idea. Anyway if it isn't moderated the posting }will appear, regardless of the group's name. Yes. } If the motivation is only to prevent "uninteresting" }postings I would say NO. For that purpose I find that the faq plays a better }role ... No. This is a common misconception about the FAQ. It has nothing to do with preventing bozo postings, because bozos don't read it. All it is for is giving the rest of us a valid excuse for ignoring the bozos. Bozo postings are a fact of life. They are not going to go away. Quite the contrary, as the net continues to expand both in absolute size and in relative demographics, the bozo problem will get much worse. The way to solve it is to get a better newsreader. Making subgroups can be a good idea on its own merits. "Research" seems like a reasonable sub-topic. Maybe it's also time to bring the pixutils group into the comp hierarchy. But don't imagine that either group will do anything to get the bozos out of comp.graphics. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {apple, ucbvax, hplabs}!well!jef "Tenser, said the tensor."