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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Temporary discussions
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 15:10:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 15:10:18 1986
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My suspicion is that the existence of "temporary" groups would
encourage more "junk" postings on random topics.  Many persons
might think to themselves, "Gee, now that we have TEMPORARY groups,
I can send in lots of junk and nobody can complain that I'm 
clogging up the main groups."  But of course the temporary groups
would still be taking up transmission and reading time, and would
probably find themselves being frequently renewed instead of being
allowed to die gracefully when their time is up.  Overall, it sounds
to me like the temporary groups could actually increase the overall "noise"
level on the net, rather than reduce it.  Personal opinion, of course.

--Lauren--