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From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: sniff the wind folks!
Message-ID: <322@scovert>
Date: 16 Mar 88 19:33:43 GMT
References: <3458@cbmvax.UUCP> <1480@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
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Keywords: why?

Remember way back when in article <1480@looking.UUCP> when brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) said... 

[ Brad's hierarchy for newsgroups removed.  I'll let others yell about that. ]

-
-Imagine, some people go around saying a group has to have a certain
-volume to justify it!  You ask me, groups should be required to be
-BELOW a certain volume (and not a high one) to justify their existence.
-
-We need more, quieter, saner forums, not fewer, noisier ones that everybody
-argues about the name of.
--- 
-Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

The last thing we need is nice, quiet, sedate[d], BORING newsgroups.  I welcome
the exchange of ideas, the yelling and screaming, the criticisms of Microport
in comp.unix.xenix, etc.  If people can't manage their own reading time it's
their problem.  But if you moderate everything, which is the only way to 
create "saner" forums, you've got people spending a large amount of time
when they shouldn't have to.  The comp groups especially benefit from the 
large volume - both of code/binaries and of technical articles.  

And I'd like to know...what do you mean by "BELOW a certain volume"?  Do
you mean number of articles or length of articles?  Would you force the
creation of comp.sources.ibm-pc.this.that.whatever simply to get under the
volume limit?  Not a good situation to me.

To me, the easiest way to organize ALL of the newsgroups would be in a
SINGLE newsgroup, with at least one more header, and better use of keywords.
Imagine not having to worry about large numbers of history files, and the
such.  The one newsgroup makes organization incredibly simple...and it makes
reading through news much more fun.  Reading may take a little longer but
you can't have everything.  (note :-) for that...but only partly).


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you can't get nothing...
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