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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
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Date: 24 Mar 89 16:03:47 GMT
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	I pretty much agree with Greg Woods's proposed rules.  I only have
one comment; I think the "100 more Yes than No" rule is not strong enough.
I don't remember exactly when the 100 threshold was thought of, but I'm sure
the net was 1/Nth the size it is today, where N is in the interval (2,5).
Perhaps the threshold could float, being defined as X% of the people the
latest arbitron reports as being on the net.  I leave it to the netnews
lawyers to hash out the details of how we determine X.  My off-the-cuff
guess is that something on the order of 1% is probably reasonable.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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