From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Newsgroups: net.news.group Title: Re: official policy on creation of new newsgroups Article-I.D.: watmath.2509 Posted: Tue Jun 1 13:45:20 1982 Received: Wed Jun 2 02:46:52 1982 References: cbosgd.2329 I would just like to make one comment about the creation of groups. People seem to be of the opinion that the net should be used for every discussion that goes on! If I created a newsgroup for every group of people I hold discussions with locally here, the list would get very long. I have seen people put out a message saying 'anybody interested in net.blat', get back 3 mail messages and say 'I guess there are people interested, time to create net.blat'. CRAP! Right now the net has many many sites, and if you create a net.group, you send these messages that 4 people want to each and every one of them. The net is more economical of resources when a large discussion is taking place, but not at all whent the discussion is small. When you get ten people or less interested in the discussion, talk by mail! If you can, have the most central person set up an alias somewhere, but this is not needed, because the number of you will be small enough that you can all keep personal mailing lists. Once more people join the group, then say 'I already have a large number of people fervently discussing the Bob and Doug show. Let's have a group' People who are holding these groups should simply send messages with long expiry dates to some group like net.news.group (or perhaps a special one) describing the discussion and how to get in on it. Brad