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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Regional Newsgroups
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 13:08:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 13:08:16 1985
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I'm not sure if this posting is intended to be serious or (-:.

If it is serious, and people really do want such regional groups,
there are two issues to be addressed.

(1) Do we have the bandwidth on Usenet to afford the extra traffic
this will generate?  Every time we make a new newsgroup, we add traffic
to the net, and we add to the time people spend reading news.  Is this
justified?

(2) If we do decide to create all these groups at once, perhaps we should
correct the mistake we made of calling these "net.nlang.all".  It's clear
that this branch of the tree has evolved into discussions of culture, not
of the languages themselves.  So perhaps they should be renamed "net.cult.all"
(or some other more descriptive name - I suppose this could be taken to
be discussions about the Moonies and Jim Jones.)

	Mark Horton