Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epicen.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!t12tst!epicen!jbuck From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.news.group Subject: Re: net.personals Message-ID: <203@epicen.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 03:33:37 EDT Article-I.D.: epicen.203 Posted: Fri Aug 30 03:33:37 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Sep-85 03:57:43 EDT References: <39@csi> <665@pyuxc.UUCP> Followup-To: net.news.group Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 32 Xref: watmath net.singles:9076 net.news.group:3605 Summary: Don't we have enough to talk about already? > From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) > Date: 26 Aug 85 21:08:45 GMT > > Net.personals has been suggested in the past. > ... > Those who are against the idea don't have to read it. > So let's not vote it down again, huh gang? But we have to pay the phone bills and computer time. News is now well over 1 megabyte a day, and we can't continue the expansion. There have been about ten requests for new groups in the last couple of weeks! The net is in danger of collapsing under its own weight. Even with compression, it still takes hours to pass all the news. Many people seem to think that new groups are started to talk about new subjects. It almost never works that way. New groups are started because lots of people are ALREADY posting articles on a specific subject. Example: net.games.hack (Hack was taking over net.games), net.abortion (it was taking over net.women), etc. There have been some exceptions (why do we have net.bizarre?), but they were mistakes. If you want to post a personal, post it to net.singles. If a huge volume results, who knows, maybe net.personals will be created. Your mailbox may fill up with flames too. But should net.personals be a nationwide group? Presumably you only want to meet someone in your neighborhood. Followups to this article will go to net.news.group. All requests for new groups should go there. -- Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc. UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck | 10011 N. Foothill Blvd. ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA | Cupertino, CA 95014