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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: current newsgroup creation rules are silly
Message-ID: <13220@Glacier.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 22:50:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: Glacier.13220
Posted: Tue Oct 15 22:50:53 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 02:21:03 EDT
Reply-To: reid@Glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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I have maintained for a long time that the current newsgroup creation rules
are preposterous; given the current (never-ending) discussion I will say it
again. You should not choose a newsgroup on the basis of the number of
writers, but the number of readers. There is not a completely accurate way
of determining the number of readers, but statistical techniques exist.
The current technique--pseudo-consensus in net.news.group--is so far from
optimal as to be completely ludicrous.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA