From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ber Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: Selection of Articles - (nf) Article-I.D.: harpo.772 Posted: Wed Jun 16 01:14:53 1982 Received: Fri Jun 18 03:15:17 1982 #R:ucbarpa:-160100:harpo:9800004:000:869 harpo!ber Jun 16 01:04:00 1982 I'm optomistic about notesfiles being able to handle the large volume of articles without nesting newsgroups. When an article is defined as a base note and its followups, the number of articles shrinks dramatically. The problem is not too many thoughts, it's that they are too randomly organized. The problem of insignificant news groups is another issue. I wonder if it would be impratical to allow arbitrary creation of newsgroups. The cost of another newsgroup is cheap compared to the cost of discussing its merits. If it were ok just to create it with no discussion, it would either be useful and flourish or it would die. Given automatic archival/removal of defunct newsgroups, how many would there be? Hundreds? Thousands? I would tend to think that the volume of submissions would not increase linearly with the number of newsgroups. brian redman