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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Let's delete net.general
Message-ID: <2799@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 03:53:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 03:53:06 1986
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
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In article <2212@phri.UUCP> gen-vote@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:

>           ... What bothers me more is the massive traffic on net.followup
> that gets generated after every one.  We all know about the dinette set,
> and the earring, and the speaker system.  We don't need 25 flames about
> each one.  The resources wasted shipping those flames around far exceed
> what it cost to send the original article.  The particular article that
> prompted me to post this proposal was about 50 lines long.  The original
> was about 5; right there we're 10:1 in flames.

Now this is really funny!  We are considering deleting net.general not
because of *its* volume, but the volume of net.followup later, provide
by the tireless actions of those attempting to correct the mispostings
by supplying many more followups to the misposting to let you know how
wasteful of network resources it is to ....

Oh, never mind.

Yes, there is a valuable lesson here, but I am not optomistic
that it will be widely recognized or accepted.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

 ~ Ah don't need no diamond ring ~
 ~ Ah don't need no Cadillac car! ~
 ~ Ah just wanna drink my Lone Star beer ~
 ~ Down in the Lightnin' bar! ~