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Subject: subgroup for net.games.frp
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Date: Thu, 10-Nov-83 12:01:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 10 12:01:48 1983
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	Several persons that read net.games.frp have brought up the idea
	of a subgroup that gamers would use to tell stories about their 
	gaming experiences.  Net.games.frp.chron or .camp have been suggested
	as names for such a group. Many of us think it is a good idea, but
	rabbit!jj has raised several interesting points about the idea
	and I will list them (the reference is rabbit.2177).

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While it will make entertaining reading, and undoubtedly be
of interest to net people, I really fear political problems.
It will undoubtedly have a high bandwidth, and start to
eat up a lot of storage, unless it gets expired once a week,
or so. <instead of two weeks, which I understand is the current
default in most cases>

I think, that before we add yet another news group, we should
consider what it will do to the out-of-control cost of netnews.

Would some net.news.group people with experience please join in
the discussion?  <And post it to both groups>

If it is created, I think it should be <oh NO!> two groups,
one for S-F RPG's and one for F&S RPG's.  Why?  I don't
like Traveler very much, and I'll bet that a lot of people
feel the same way about D&D *  <is a trademark of TSR hobbies>
type games.
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	Ok, are netnews costs out of control?  I really don't know and
	haven't heard anything about costs on the net lately.

	Is netnews eating up more and more disk space?  What is the growth
	curve like?  I don't have any idea of how many people would submit
	lengthy articles to such a group -- 10 to 15 a week seems to me to
	be a upper limit, on average 100 lines or so, so that makes 40-90K
	bytes a week??  Is that going to be trouble for some sites?

	I don't have any objections to more than one group; though actually I
	am quite proficient with the 'n' key so not having two groups 
	wouldn't put a strain on me.  

	'Political problems'.  I like very much the open unrestricted
	atmosphere of netnews.  I dislike very much the policy of letting
	site admins decide what their users and even worse, sites fed by 
	them should and should not see.  I understand their position and
	that they aren't usually the ones that really decide what to do
	about netnews and 'non-work related' groups.  But I don't think
	that this new group would be nearly as controversial as net.motss.
	Also, I must point out that if the consensus is that this new group
	shouldn't be created frp'rs would continue to use net.games.frp
	for their campaign descriptions as has been done in the past .
	A new group would only be a convenience, not a necessity
	as was the case with net.motss.


	Please comment to both net.news.group and net.games.frp.  Thanks,

	b2  Bryan Bingham {ucbvax!lbl-csam, cmcl2, purdue}!lanl-a!bb