Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site masscomp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!masscomp!trb From: trb@masscomp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: I like ALL new news-group Message-ID: <196@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 15:44:09 EST Article-I.D.: masscomp.196 Posted: Mon Feb 27 15:44:09 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 08:02:26 EST References: pucc-h.542, <294@rocks34.UUCP> <303@ut-ngp.UUCP> <333@hou3c.UUCP> Organization: MASSCOMP, Littleton, MA Lines: 29 Kenneth Almquist says: A quote from a recent article <843@cvl.UUCP> in net.general explains the problem with too many newsgroups better than I could: ... There are so many newsgroups that a newcomer does not know what to read and what not to read .... Like it or not, new users are constantly joining and (often) misusing the net. Every added newsgroup makes the problem a little bit worse. Come on, Kenneth, this new user's ignorance is not evidence that every added newsgroup makes the problem a little bit worse. It's just evidence that the new user is confused, and that the new user's negligent system administrator didn't point him at the easily available summary documents (which come out at the beginning of each month in net.announce). I say, the more we segregate individual topic streams, the more useful netnews will be. This segregation will NOT affect the amount of data which flows, now will it? I find it hard to belive that new netnews users find out about netnews enough to know that it's there but not enough to find out that their test messages will go all over the world. I've suggested it before, and I'll suggest it now. readnews/vnews/notes should have pointers to proper documentation in the help command menus. Andy Tannenbaum Masscomp Inc Westford MA (617) 692-6200 x274