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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Vote Fraud and Newsgroups
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 18:31:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 18:31:58 1985
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In article <765@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
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>speak out against it.  The vast majority couldn't care less and
>won't bother to say anything.  This latter group doesn't intend to read it,

I believe that a lot of netters won't bother to say anything but WILL read
new groups, at least long enough to find if they're useful.  I usually 
subscribe to all the new groups we get in Europe (mcvax is rather selective!),
then unsubscribe to about half of them later.  But I only vote on those I'm
PARTICULARLY interested in - and clearly from the numbers most netters never
vote re any new groups.

I believe that new groups should be fairly easy to start, subject to discussion in this newsgroup followed by a reasonable positive vote.  But a similar
process to REMOVE them should be carried out if the new group turns out
to be largely unused, or has a very high junk/goodie ratio.

I understand from recent postings that we're 60% or more to saturation in
no. of groups and in group name buffer space - please would whoever maintains
the news SW increase the limits on these, so that when (say) 97% of sites
have the new version, new groups are not quite such a scarce resource.  Yes
I realise it may take 2 years to reach that happy state, but if the change is
not done now we will still have the same problems in 2 years time!