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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: Newsgroup creations and deletions
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 22:17:58 EDT
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Good grief, Lauren!  If I remember right, you were AT the Usenet
BOF where this decision was made!  It wasn't controversial at
all, it was unanimous.  The only concern expressed was to make sure
the people who weren't at the BOF had a chance to comment, and
so a survey of the net was taken.  This pointed out that the traffic
needed someplace to go, which is why the delay.  We finally have a
solution to this problem.

Has it been so long that we need to reevaluate the decision?

The problems at the time were that the traffic on net.general was
so pointless that almost everybody had unsubscribed.  More than
half the postings to net.general were either silly mistakes or
things that should have been posted somewhere else.  This in turn
makes it not very useful to posters because they won't reach many
people, so they all want to post on net.announce.

Has the situation changed?  If anything, it seems to me it's gotten worse.