Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!necntc!necis!smv From: smv@necis.UUCP (Steve Valentine) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: The death of USENET Summary: WHAT is all this trash!?! Keywords: AAAARRRRRRGGGG!!!! Message-ID: <637@necis.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 88 18:20:16 GMT References: <2645@rpp386.UUCP> Reply-To: smv@necis.UUCP (Steve Valentine) Distribution: na Organization: NEC Information Systems, Acton, MA Lines: 27 Look folks, this is getting rediculous! Let's have a moritorium on telling each other how to run the net! If YOU think that YOUR site could/should live without certain groups, fine, blast them locally, and refuse to pass them. If sites downstream from you want them, they can find alternative routes, if not then they truly should be omited. We went through a major newsgroup re-org ostensibly to make this easier. Was that a waste of time? PLEASE STOP SUGGESTING THAT THE NET AS A WHOLE SHOULD DROP HALF THE GROUPS! As people have said about persons who complain about what they see on TV: If you don't like it, change the channel! You newsadmins out there have sys files, USE THEM! Where is it written that the net as a whole has to grant you permission to drop a group?!?! Here at this site, we carry everything we can get, and will continue to do so. Our feed(s) do the same, because they want to as well. We feed two sites, one that wants only a few groups. We send them only those groups that they want. I'm sick and tired of being told that "the net" should drop this or that. The death of USENET will come because we're all blowing hot air about how the net should be run, rather than just quietly running it. When news.admin and news.groups make the top 20 list, there is something wrong! -- Steve Valentine - smv@necis.nec.com NEC Information Systems 1300 Massachusetts Ave., Boxborough, MA 01719 This signature line is blank when you're not looking at it.