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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Promoting "inet" to "world"
Message-ID: <11458@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 89 17:14:46 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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It's generally obvious which groups are inet vs which are world
groups.  The world groups are full of trash, flames and postings like
"gee, I had that problem too, I don't know what I did to solve it".

I don't think the folks who are reading the inet groups as mail
messages are going to like all the added noise that Usenet will bring.

Remember when UNIX-WIZARDS and SF-LOVERS (and HUMAN-NETS) were worth
reading, and didn't take your whole morning?

I'm not saying UUCP-only sites are bad, or anything of that sort.  The
problem with Usenet's world groups is its flood propagation.  The
mail pipe may be less efficient, but the discussion doesn't suffer
from such horrible time warps.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
Have five nice days.