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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: nuke net.general? & a radical proposal
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 11:37:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 27 11:37:25 1984
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Reply-To: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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I don't know why you think we can't remove net.general, Greg.  All we
have to do is send out an rmgroup, get the backbone sites to remove
it and create a mode 444 file /usr/spool/news/net/general, and encourage
all other news admins to do the same.  That will kill it.

I don't deny that there is a need for some channel to carry all
that traffic.  But since the value of that traffic is pretty low
(from a readers point of view) that channel should NOT be in the
default subscription list, and right now all.general is in the
default.  Changing the default would require everyone on the net
to make the change, and experience has shown that half of them won't.

Frankly, net.misc and net.wanted are the obvious places for the traffic.
Suitably subdivided, of course.

	Mark