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From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
Message-ID: <565@octopus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 05:42:48 GMT
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In article <27934@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>o efficient: an ideal efficient name space means that every posting has a 
>  single, optimal newsgroup for posting and that there are no newsgroups
>  that have no traffic. Everything gets used, and everything that's needed
>  is there.

You forgot one more attribute of the ideal efficient name space: the number
of postings appearing in the newsgroup per <standard reading interval; maybe
a day> is reasonable. 

There is a point where newsreading software just can't handle posting volume
efficiently. When I come in on a monday and find 200 new articles in c.s.i.p,
I am not happy. The postings may all "belong" there, but I wish there were
more than one group covering the general topic of PC's. It would be more
efficient.

Pete

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