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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Another Classification of types of newsgroups
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 14:50:09 EDT
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   Before we let the arbitrary and ill-considered list of "soapbox" groups
become a standard, I thought I would propose my own list. This is based 
only on groups I have some knowledge of.

 	 	  Soapbox Groups

   net.abortion, net.origins

		  Semi-Soapbox Groups

   net.politics, net.politics.theory, net.women, net.music, net.followup

		  Quasi-Soapbox Groups

   net.religion, net.religion.christian, net.religion.jewish, net.sci,
   net.philosophy, net.jokes.d, net.space, net.singles, net.college, 
   net.rec.nude, these days we add net.news and net.news.group.

                  Bizarro Groups

   net.rumor, net.suicide, net.jokes, net.rec.drugs, net.poems, net.misc,
   net.test, junk

      I think my classification makes as much sense as any I have heard.

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
          "There are no differences but differences of degree 
            between degrees of difference and no difference"