Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Summary: But if you have gangrene in the foot, you don't cut off te whole leg.
Message-ID: <2117@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 00:31:44 GMT
References: <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <56228@sun.uucp> <2350@inco.UUCP> <56250@sun.uucp>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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If it's gangrene, you do need to cut. But do you really need to take the
whole leg?

Let's try cutting off some feet.

	(1) NO BINARIES. I'm a reformed binary-poster myself, but I never
	    posted anything big enough to require multiple sections. It's
	    not useful for programmers. I distribute software in binary form
	    on Compuserve now. This includes non-ascii source.

	(2) NO GAMES.

	(3) NO DEMOS. If the program doesn't do anything useful, don't ship
	    it.

These two should get rid of most of the sources fluff, even in the micro
groups, and do we really need Empire or Umoria?

	(4) Give every group in rec, soc, talk a going over. Flame groups
	    like talk.bizzarre or whatever the evolution group is this week
	    can go.

This can be as nasty as necessary. This should cut news down quite a load.
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