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From: robert@weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Suggestion for "trash" newsgroups
Message-ID: <399@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Apr-86 12:39:20 EST
Article-I.D.: weitek.399
Posted: Thu Apr  3 12:39:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Apr-86 11:15:49 EST
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Summary: More choices, less bitching

While I sympathize with all the sites that can't handle the extreme
volume of netnews, I dislike the way groups are being zapped right
and left, especially since certain net.nazis are using this as an
excuse to barge into groups and bellow, "Shape up, assholes, or
you're next!"

I suggest that, rather than eliminating groups entirely, we create
another news category: "trash." Thus, net.bizarre would become
trash.bizarre, net.flame would become trash.flame, etc.

Sites that are willing to carry trash groups would add "trash.all"
to their sys files, and people who didn't want them wouldn't.

Specifically, backbone sites wouldn't be expected to automatically
carry the trash groups. Trash-news junkies would have to arrange
their own feeds.

This way, everybody gets their choice.  The net.guardians-of-public-morals-
and-preventers-of-high-phone-bills could decide to downgrade a group
to "trash" status, but not eliminate it entirely, and the decision
about which groups to receive is resolved on the system administrator
level, as it should be.

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	Robert Plamondon
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