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