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From: jim@helios.cs.odu.edu (Jim Duncan)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: What is news.admin?
Message-ID: <6050@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 88 12:50:09 GMT
References: <12636@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <173@sulaco.UUCP> <979@acornrc.UUCP> <477@happym.UUCP> <87@jetson.UUCP>
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In article <87@jetson.UUCP> john@jetson.UUCP (John Owens) writes:
>In article <477@happym.UUCP>, kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt) writes:
>> Yes.  I think that a great deal of the discussion in this group
>> belongs elsewhere.  Probably an elsewhere under talk.  A moderator
>> can gently clean up some of the chaff.
>
>YES!  How about one of
>
>news.talk	General chatter about USENET.
>talk.new	General chatter about USENET.
>

No!  Instead, I propose

dot.dot		a new top level whose name conveys the general content:
		postings which seem to go on and on, causing much file space
		to be consumed by kill files...

 Jim Duncan, Computer Science Dept, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk VA 23529-0162
       (804)440-3915     INET: jim@cs.odu.edu    UUCP: ..!uunet!xanth!jim
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