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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: cutbacks
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 22:44:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 27 22:44:54 1985
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The subnet centered on utzoo -- most of Eastern Canada -- is starting to
discuss the idea of major cuts in non-technical newsgroups.  This is partly
a matter of phone bills, partly general resource consumption on the more
central systems, and partly fed-up sys admins who don't think that groups
like net.origins and net.flame are worth it.

Suggestions on alternative actions are solicited.  For obvious reasons,
the readers would strongly prefer things like moderated newsgroups rather
than total extinction.  Does anybody have any bright ideas on the mechanics
of converting, say, net.singles to moderated form?  (I know it's been tried
and didn't work; my suggestion is more drastic methods, like maybe killing
the unmoderated group at backbone sites after a conversion period.)
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry