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From: chuqui@cae780.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Temporary newsgroups
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Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 12:22:40 EST
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There are a few problems with Fred's suggestions that I can think of
offhand. The main one is that it seems that once a topic is created, it
never seems to go away (like my old peeve net.wobegon that actually seems 
to be getting some use occasionally). Also, I don't know about you but I 
don't let the net delete topics out of my system. If we are constantly 
creating and deleting topics, what are you going to do to the poor net
managers?

Two other points:

    Traditionally the best way to kill off an unwelcome subject is to move
    it to a different topic. This does a few things: It makes the subject
    unavailable to those that don't read that topic (not everyone on the
    net reads every topic...), it splits those people in the subject into
    two groups (those that want to move and those that don't), and it means
    that you end up with two disjoint conversations on the same subject
    because of the split and because of net lag. A lot of the time people
    simply post to both topics so that their messages don't get lost. 

    Also, when you consider the lack of success that we have had changing
    names of topics in the past (i.e. net.trivia and net.games.trivia) I
    don't think that the net.temp.foo to net.foo will work. It's another 
    one of those things that you just can't get everybody up to date on
    to do, it seems.

When 2.11 comes out with subject sorting within topics, won't this become a
rather moot point? I agree that we need better control of topic creation,
but controlling it by creating large numbers of them doesn't help much...



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