Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <1988Jun14.230853.7574@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7475@swan.ulowell.edu> <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <56228@sun.uucp>, <2350@inco.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 88 23:08:53 GMT

> ... C news is a step in this
> direction: let's get a beta version of it out. (Henry? Geoff? Help!)

We're working on it.  It's been a busy winter...

Actually, there is one thing that can be done without software changes,
something that would cut traffic quite a bit and simultaneously greatly
improve the signal/noise ratio:  go 100% moderated.  (It's hard to find
a moderator for talk.garbage, you say?  Perhaps that is a reflection on
how desirable the group is...)  [Sounds of asbestos suit being donned.]
-- 
Man is the best computer we can      |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
put aboard a spacecraft. --Von Braun | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry