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Subject: Re: hoo boy! (never again) - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 23:10:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 20 23:10:37 1984
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uokvax!andree    Jan 19 21:30:00 1984

Commentary -

I think chuqui's criteria co-exist with laura's. If the traffic on some
topic is high enough to be annoying, it should probably have its own group
(what laura said). Conversely, if there is little/no traffic in some group,
it's probably not enough to be annoying in another group, so it should
probably be migrated to something else (what chuqui said).

However, I think chuqui's criteria for "insufficient traffic" is far to
high. If something shows up on a group at a YEARLY average of once a month,
that's sufficient to leave it where it is. If there aren't enough people to
generate any more traffic than that, the should probably switch to mail
(how few would that be? 1? 10? 100? anybody have ANY idea?).

Of course, it's not clear that such measurements can be taken reliably on
the net. There is evidence that the net is EXTREMELY lossy, so what you
don't see may be busy somewhere else (in a small, local area). Somebody
needs to investigate this. I may in a month or so, if I have the time and
nobody else has done it.

Speaking of moving net.chess, I don't understand where that came from.
net.chess.games (where it belongs. *NOT* net.rec.chess!)  was doing quite
well, thank you, when there suddenly appeared net.chess, and all the
traffic moved to it? Would the perpetrator of this please explain it to me?

Final comment - please, PLEASE don't add anything to net.micro. It's already
rather large, and several ongoing discussion ought to be moved out of it. But
that creates problems in the ARPA gateway. Mayhap the proposed redsign of
the net should take {ARPA,CS,BIT,*}net gateways into account...

	<mike