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From: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
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Date: 28 Mar 89 15:52:21 GMT
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In article <37740@bbn.COM> fwebb@BBN.COM (Fred Webb) writes:
>
>Greg, if you're willing to take on this thankless job, more power to you!
>
>In general, I think your proposed guidelines are fine, and are pretty close
>to what's been happening.  I do have a couple of minor comments.

I agree with both these quoted statements.  You're a brave person,
Greg.

One thing that needs to be added for clarity is the parts of the news
tree that the rules apply to.  Clearly they don't apply to alt.  That
was intended to be chaos.  If the alt people want to change things
they are the ones to do it.  There was a comment about bionet in one
article.  Again, it would be my assumption that these rules don't
apply there.  That is Elliot Lear's domain.  But the rules need to be
clear on this.

On the subject of group creation, the "rule of 100" seems to work
reasonably well.  I don't see any real reason to fool with it in the
way that some folk are suggesting.  As I understand it, the number was
derived as a cost crossover between mailinglist and newsgroup.  It
seems to me that this is still the relevant consideration.  I'm
not sure how this crossover scales with the size of the net.  My first
inclination is that it is not very sensitive.

Group removal is something new.  The comment that it should be
somewhat harder to take people's newsgroups away than it was to create
it in the first place has my sympathy.  The newsgroup mailinglist
crossover would again be the relevant measure.  Lack of traffic should
be the trigger and not the noise created by some group of netters.

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