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From: tonyb@peewee.uss.tek.com (Tony Birnseth)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,soc.singles
Subject: Re: mistakes in reorganisation
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 15:30:55 EDT
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In article <2615@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
>
>net.singles.  Many people feel that in a totally fair world, this
>should be soc.singles.  However, if you look at the arbitron stats,
	  ^^^^
     Don't you mean 'talk' here??

>you'll see that net.singles is the 7th most popular group on the net.
>So while the content and volume may seem characteristic of a talk
>group, it's so popular that it wouldn't be right to put it into talk.
>
>net.jokes.  The same thing applies as net.singles, although net.jokes
>is currently listed #2.  It's too popular to put into talk.
>

Just so everyone doesn't think that all backbone sites think alike...
I disagree with the above philosophy.  Catagorization should be by
content, not popularity.  One of the principle purposes of the reorganization
was to make it easier for a site to sort through major catagories so it
could decide what they wanted to carry (pay for) and what not.  Just because 
something is popular doesn't mean the content is what the "site" (could be 
translated as "management") wants to receive.

I feel this way about this issue. But I am willing to wait a while till
after the reorganization is complete before recommending to change the 
agreed upon structure.  We desparately need this reorganization and I
don't consider the issue to be important enough to hold it up (at this
time).

It would be nice if the flaming could stop so some serious work could
get done.

Tony Birnseth
News admin at Tektronix