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From: cej@well.UUCP (Craig Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Suggestion for "trash" newsgroups
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Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 01:16:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 01:16:28 1986
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In article <399@weitek.UUCP> robert@weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) writes:
>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.
I think this suggestion has a certain amount of merit.  One of the best ways
to distribute the phone bills around would be to distribute the newsgroups
among the various links.  (I have no idea if this isn't already done among
some of the backbones.)

To be successful, though, I think the name would need to be less pejorative--
something like misc would be more acceptable.  (This might lead to misc.misc,
but you can't win all the time.)  Of course, what many places would want is
the distinction tech.all and nontech.all, but that might lead to a little
to much conclusion-drawing by management.

-- 
Craig Jackson
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