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From: chuqui@cae780.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Dying subject (again)
Message-ID: <241@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 18:31:34 EST
Article-I.D.: cae780.241
Posted: Thu Dec 22 18:31:34 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Dec-83 10:43:11 EST
Organization: CAESystems, Inc. Sunnyvale
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The response to the current suggestions of dying subjects seems to show
that the net is finally ready to tackle this problem. I have yet to receive
a single flame (or threat), which is in itself a rarity around here. Based
on what I have gotten (on the net and privately) here are my
recommendations for what to do:

net.movies.sw, net.rec.birds, net.rec.skydive: 
    Save these for now. I feel that the lifespan of sw is nearing the end,
    but it still has a large number of supporters. The others seem to be
    low use topics with a bit of interest.

net.applic, net.games.pacman, net.usoft.s, net.vvs, net.cse.cai,
net.records, net.ucds, net.wobegon:  DEATH to the blighters!

undecided:
    net.college, net.tv.da

net.tv.da is like sw, almost ready to die, but not quite. net.college has a
lot of ambivolous feelings with no consensus, so I don't plan on doing
anything. 

Since nobody seems to have any real problems with these topics, I am going
to give this last message a chance to propogate and then hop to it. Last
chance to save things.

I think that what we REALLY need to do here is develop a policy for
deleting dead smelly things off the net. It looks as though this is
starting, lets get a policy in place!

Here, for those that care, is a list of the standings and I got them....

net.movies.sw		3 die, 5 save
net.applic		4 die
net.college		4 die ,2 save
net.games.pacman	4 die
net.rec.birds		3 save
net.rec.skydive		2 save, 1 maybe (seasonal?), 1 die
net.usoft.s		4 die, 1 save
net.vvs			4 die
net.cse.cai		3 die (no topic discussion?)
net.records		5 die (merge to net.music?)
net.tv.da		4 die (temp topic, dying out?)
net.ucds		5 die
net.wobegon		5 die