Xref: utzoo news.admin:2585 news.misc:1520 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!garnet!weemba From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc Subject: talk.origins and the death of USENET Message-ID: <10903@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 14 Jun 88 04:08:32 GMT References: <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <56228@sun.uucp> <2350@inco.UUCP> <56250@sun.uucp> <2117@sugar.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Followup-To: news.misc Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 16 In-reply-to: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) I'm only commenting about talk.origins. In article <2117@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar (Peter da Silva) writes: > (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. Yeah, right. For a month or two. Maybe. You get rid of talk.origins, and the nonsense will show up in sci.astro and sci.bio and sci.misc. A chunk does get through to sci.*: I suspect this is partly due to many sites not getting talk.*. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720