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From: Lauren Weinstein 
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Out of retirement (already?)
Message-ID: <82@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 31-Jul-83 23:15:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 31 23:15:48 1983
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Sigh.  Wouldn't you know?  I try to retire (briefly) from a 
line of discussion, and I start getting messages encouraging me
to continue and *not* to "drop out" of the discussion.  Ya' can't win!
It's just that I occasionally get the feeling that I'm out there
swinging my digital sword by myself and that I may be a cult of
one in my opinions.  However, recent direct mail leads me to believe
that many of you agree with me, so I'll un-retire for now.

Well, I think that the one main disadvantage to sending all replies back
to the author of a query is that individual authors will have varying
levels of interest and responsibility when it comes to sending out
those collected replies.  At least "official" moderators would have
already expressed their desire and willingness to take on such
responsibilities on a regular basis.

On a couple of other points...

I basically like the Usenet statistics.  I suspect that they may be
a bit too verbose, however.  Do we really need the top 50 users?
How about the top 10 or 15 or so, instead -- might be almost as
useful as the more "extended" form.

As for WATS lines ... hey, there are a substantial number of them
out there already doing their thing for Usenet.  They can indeed be
economical for some sites, and are worth looking into in many
cases.

----

By the way, I've discovered that some sites are not getting my
"fullname" field on netnews articles.  I'm sure sending it out:

	From: Lauren Weinstein 

... so somebody must be stripping it off (perhaps an old netnews version?)
along the line somewhere.

--Lauren--

P.S.  I'll give you odds that if CSNET started carrying the sort of news
load we do on Usenet now, you'd find the service charges rising
rapidly.  CSNET is basically a mail-only service at the present 
and really is heavily oriented toward conventional message relaying 
services.  Compared with CSNET, the Usenet is total anarchy.  But
we on Usenet do have the freedom to "instantly" connect new sites in varied 
ways and many other freedoms, and I like it that way!

--LW--