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Subject: Re: I like ALL new news-group
Message-ID: <196@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 15:44:09 EST
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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