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From: julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: nuke net.general?
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 12:44:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 27 12:44:03 1984
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I'd be happy to get rid of net.general and net.followup.
There is another more radical change I'd really like to see.
I think increasing numbers of sites will wish NOT to take any
traffic for 'non-technical' newsgroups.  I think of  the net.rec,
net.jokes, net.singles, children, politics, religion, women, etc
etc.   though these groups (some of them) carry very interesting
and potentially valuable traffic,  organizations on tight budgets
cannot always justify the telephone bills.
  At present, it is really difficult to arrange to take all
technical groups from a neighbouring site, and none of the others.
It requires a horrible control line.

  I propose that the prefix "net" be bifurcated into two different
prefixes, to be chosen by someone, with semantics roughly
network-wide-technical-content  and network-wide-nontechnical.
Perhaps the latter could be called  netnt or something.  Then by
having delivery of  net.all but NOT netnt.all, we get the required
effect.
  I know this will have a major dislocating effect, especially on
sites not using the latest software (which might permit automatic
renaming of groups?).  I urge the net wizards and others to do
some planning for such a change-over.  We don't get all thr groups
we"d like because we have to exclude others for budgetary reasons
and it is too complicated at present to get the effect desired.
		Julian davies
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