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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Votes with many NO votes (Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines)
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Date: 28 Mar 89 03:12:51 GMT
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In article <3572@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <3533@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, compton@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Dave Compton) writes:
>> 	Should we even care about the number of no votes.  If there
>> are enough yes votes, why spoil someone elses party.
>Because the namespace of the net is not an unlimited resource.

Why not?

There have been, historically, two arguments raised in support of such a
statement: that there are software limitations, and that users would get
confused.

To the software limitations, I think Larry Wall said it best, in the
BUGS section of the documentation for rn (file rn.1):
	"There should be no fixed limit on the number of newsgroups."

As for the user confusion argument, I still feel that we're seeing much
more confusion for users not knowing where in a complex namespace to
post something that fits no existing category well.  The solution is not
to heighten that confusion by limiting new group creation, but to ease
the creation of groups, since each new group will lessen that confusion
factor for a subject. After all, how often have you seen a message,
cross-posted to 17 newsgroups, starting off with, "I don't know where
this goes, so I'm posting it here..."?

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