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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Rigid criterion for putting stuff in "talk."
Message-ID: <982@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 1 Feb 90 20:59:53 GMT
References: <357@guardian.UUCP> <1990Jan30.230824.12538@agate.berkeley.edu> <87131@looking.on.ca>
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In referenced article, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>
>How do we decide if a topic goes into "talk?"  Easy.  Count the number
>of messages posted to news.groups that argue about the nature of the
>topic during the discussion part.  If you get a lot (more than 50) then
>the topic is definitely a talk category, unless moderated.

Oh, god, first it was sci.aquaria, then rec.aquaria, and now we have a
suggestion for talk.aquaria!!
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