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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: Posting newsletters
Message-ID: <333@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 20:09:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 10 20:09:50 1987
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Summary: need more groups

> >                     I am interested in posting the newsletter of the
> >Electronic Networking Association of this network, but have absolutely
> >no idea where to put it. Seems to me that a moderated group,
> >comp.org.ena or even soc.org.ena would be the best place, but it doesn't seem
> >to be quite that easy to get new groups created. So... where should I put it?
> 
> Why do we need a separate news group for all these types of things?
> 
> How about a news group called comp.newsletter for newsletters for anything

As more and more sites on the net begin paying for the feeds (such as
UUNET sites), it becomes more important for news to be categorized, rather
than just lumped into a group that already exists.  Since I pay to have
groups interesting to the employees of my company sent to our site, I
support having more groups with a narrower interest range.

For example, the only PC based UNIX group was comp.unix.xenix.  Since
I don't care to read about porting "rn" to XENIX ad infinitum, I created
comp.unix.venix to contain information on that version of UNIX for the PC.

Another example: comp.sources.misc.  You'd think that this would be a
sources only group.  But no, for lack of a better place, the moderator
accepts MSDOS BINARIES.  These belong in a separate group, so that
paying sites don't have to pay for stuff they don't want.

For a traditional site, where all groups are received, the extra groups
shouldn't be much burden, and the total amount of traffic would remain
the same.
-- 
	Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.
(201) 922-1134 (voice, nights)   OR   (201) 834-1378 (voice, days)
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