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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: proposed 'standard' for creating new groups
Message-ID: <258@maynard.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 09:32:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 09:32:17 1986
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> 1) Voting on Usenet is flawed.  If nothing else, we should be counting
>    ONE VOTE PER SITE, not one vote per person...

This sounds reasonable at first.  However, a perhaps unintended side
effect is to give excessive influence to the owners of "fuzzball hosts"
(like vortex and maynard!).  Should someone with three IBM PCs in his
basement really count more than 100 users of ihnp4?

> 4) The issues of mailing lists vs. newsgroups are still far from fully
>    understood.  I personally believe that most of the statistics
>    posted on this issue (thresholds for newsgroups vs. mailing lists)
>    are currently misleading and cannot be relied upon until more 
>    complete research is done into this issue.  We just don't have 
>    enough information about this yet.

Agreed.  But what should we do?  Never create newsgroups until the
issues are undersood?  How about a proposal for a way to research this
question?  (Hmm, if I had more time...  all the necessary information
is in the uucp map, it just needs to be crunched...) 
-- 
Larry Campbell                                 The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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