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From: dat@hpcnoe.UUCP (dat)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:33:00 EST
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	Actually, I feel that the main advantages of splintering
off and having more newsgroups are;

	1) Reduces the flow of messages on any individual group
	   (annoying as hell to type 'notes' and have 70+ messages
	   queued up to read, 99% of which I DON'T want to read)

	2) Allows more centralization and a more common thread of
	   interest in the postings (quite frankly I couldn't care
	   less about the origin of Heavy Metal, or any of the
	   other useless discussions (personal opinion) currently
	   taking up disc space in net.music!!) which also allows
	   a more organized group.

	3) Administration-wise - too bad!  Poll the users of your
	   machine and don't accept articles from groups that noone
	   reads!  Adding a new group will only add a few hundred
	   bytes to the disc space used, assuming that the same 
	   number of messages are sent out, just split into interest
	   groups.

	Comments?

	(Personally, I vote for net.music.jazz AND net.music.rock, and
then think we should leave net.music for eclectic music and music that
doesn't fit into either folk, jazz, rock or classical.  This would
reduce the flow of notes in EACH group to a more manageable level)

			Dave Taylor
			Hewlett Packard - Colorado Networks Operation
			In Beautiful Downtown Fort Collins, Colorado