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From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.config
Subject: Re: Correction - Re: The USENET Backbone (Last changed: 10 December 1987)
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Date: 8 Jan 88 14:14:56 GMT
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> Last month, talk.bizarre was only 15th on this "kill" list.  One would almost
> be tempted to put it to #1 after seing a message there that read,
> 	"We're almost at the top of the volume stats!  Come on guys, keep
> 	posting, keep posting!"  (paraphrased from memory)
> Is this what we desire?
> 
In talk.bizarre, yes.  That's what the group is for.  If you want serious,
sensible discussions, you have no business subscribing to talk.bizarre.

And, no, I don't subscribe to it myself; it's not weird enough.  I read
unix.wizards instead. [;-]

Seriously, if you don't want to pay for a group, why don't you just go
into your sys file and suppress it?  Tell your neighbors, and I'm sure
they would be happy not to send it to you.  I don't let anything with
"religion" or "politics" sully my disk, and I'm sure there are lots of
other sites around that do the same.  I'm considering doing the same
with "maps", since this machine isn't big enough to be able to use them
effectively.

Where do people get the idea that any site is required to accept any
newsgroup (other than control and a few net.admin groups)?  Let the
sites that want a group arrange to distribute it among themselves.

-- 
John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)