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From: jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: What newsgroups are *really* needed?
Message-ID: <3656@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 11:25:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: garfield.3656
Posted: Mon Sep 30 11:25:41 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 12:20:26 EDT
References: <2242@ukma.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes)
Followup-To: net.news
Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's
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Summary: 

In article <2242@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
>Because of high phone bills and angry glares from our higher-up's,
>we've been having to decide which newsgroups can be thrown away and
>which should be kept.  

	We just went through the same problem, but since we are a computer
science department, we decided to keep only computer related groups.
The only large groups that we still get are net.sources and net.unix-wizards.
We managed to cut out about 75% of our news, the administration is happy,
and we realized how much of the news is crap.  All the talk about information
overload and the net collapsing under it's own weight is apparently true.

Jeff Sparkes
garfield!jeff1


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