Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!ka From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: I like ALL new news-group Message-ID: <333@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 12:13:18 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.333 Posted: Mon Feb 27 12:13:18 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Feb-84 07:44:36 EST References: pucc-h.542, <294@rocks34.UUCP> <303@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 15 A quote from a recent article <843@cvl.UUCP> in net.general explains the problem with too many newsgroups better than I could: I am so sorry to have put a test message on net.general . I am a newcomer here and so have pity on me.I usually read very little netnews and transmit very rarely.I wanted to send something important and before doing that I wanted to make sure that messages really get sent.Hence the test message .I was not aware of the existence of net.test ,a group meant solely for testing purposes .I had also not read about this in net.announce. 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. Kenneth Almquist