Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!super.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!sherr From: sherr@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Adam B. Sherr) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: The death of USENET Message-ID: <5036@super.upenn.edu> Date: 13 Jun 88 21:25:22 GMT References: <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <56228@sun.uucp> <2350@inco.UUCP> <56250@sun.uucp> Sender: news@super.upenn.edu Reply-To: sherr@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Adam B. Sherr) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 29 In article <56250@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >>> o rec.all -- maybe keep rec.arts.sf-lovers. >>Shouldn't there be a smiley face after this line? > >Actually (and this is, I'm sure, controversial) no. Why? SF-Lovers has an >extremely large readership across both USENET and Internet. If it were >removed from USENET, lots of the burden of SF-L would shift to E-mail links, >which doesn't really solve anything. This isn't true of any other rec group. > >And, in case it wasn't obvious, while I'm arguing for sf-l, note that I >haven't said a word about rec.mag.otherrealms. That's not accidental. > >Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Oh I see, just keep the newsgroups that you like and kill all of the others. Maybe you should delete the binary groups and talk.bizzare which have huge volumes (maybe even rec.humor but this would dissapoint a lot of people) but many of the rec. groups have small, faithful groups of readers. Just because you're not one of them doesn't mean the newsgroup is not worth it. __ () / ) / /\ / /--/ __/ __. ______ / ) /_ _ __ __ / (_(_/_(_/|_/ / / <_ /__/__/ /_