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From: woods@hao.UUCP
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Subject: Re: nuke net.general? & a radical proposal
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 22:39:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 22:39:53 1984
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  I agree with most of Gene's radical proposal. We clearly need *some* group for
general purpose items. It never occured to me to change the charter of 
net.general, but now that I've read all the articles on the subject, I think
we have no choice. We can't remove net.general (I wanted to type "nuke" so
badly! :-) , but we *can* get rid of net.misc and followup, put all those
articles in net.general, and use net/mod.announce for the purpose net.general
was originally intended for. It seems clear to me that there are too many
ignorant bozos posting to the net (I may be a bozo, but at least I'm not
ignorant! :-)  for a group such as net.general was intended to be to function
properly without moderation. Obviously, Mark Horton saw all this coming when
he created net.announce in the first place. The only place I disagree, Gene,
is in your optimstic estimate how difficult such a change would be. There are
many, many casual users out there who don't read net.news or any of it's
subgroups. Is it really possible to post an article to *every* group? I think
that is what it will take to make such a radical change possible. I do agree,
however, that we have to do *something*. Growth is fine, as long as
it's direction is controlled. I've been saying for a long time that we *need*
more of a tree-like newsgroup structure. What Gene is proposing is clearly a
move in that direction. The only question is, is it really possible? I think
maybe we should at least give it a try.

--Greg
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NUKE NET.GENERAL!!!