Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The death of USENET
Message-ID: <1754@looking.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 15:19:38 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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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.

Which ignores the fact that several rec groups (and some sci and soc groups)
have greater readership, sometimes *far* greater than sf-lovers.  Even
talk.bizarre has the same readership, god knows why.  Perhaps it is because
the noise level in sf-lovers has gotten too high.

I have to admit a bias for SF-lovers.  It was the first group I ever read.
I read it as an arpanet mailing list almost before there was a USENET.
It has more history than almost any group.  But Chuq is just being his
usual self-important self in making up the reasons above.  (I'm surprised
he didn't drop of the name of one of his many good-buddy famous SF
personalities who are in agreement!)
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
		"USENET -- the world's least important network."