Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!iuvax!maytag!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Emergency Newsgroups (was: CfD: Interest Group Surveys ...) Message-ID: <98509@looking.on.ca> Date: 19 Feb 90 06:53:26 GMT References: <1990Feb7.224449.8453@diku.dk> <6317@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Feb18.221529.7429@sq.sq.com> Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 19 Class: discussion Other "emergency" situations have existed, and sometimes the groups were created for them. In the early days, of course, groups were created left and right on a whim. Some of today's groups are the result of that. Another example was comp.sys.next. When the NeXT was launched, this group was created right away without a vote. And it continues to be an active and viable top-100 group to this day. I think it would be nice if temporary subgroups of "news.groups" could be created and removed freely by a responsible individual. Many debates could have been put in such groups to everybody's benefit. Indeed, news.groups seems to see higher volume traffic (for a short time) about certain subjects (like fish) than the groups on those subjects ever see. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473