Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: nuke net.general? Message-ID: <3052@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 11:31:39 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3052 Posted: Tue Jun 19 11:31:39 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 03:32:48 EDT References: <31@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 18 1. Removing net.general will simply result in anyone posting something which does not obviously fit in a topic-oriented newsgroup using net.misc (hopefully). So it makes little difference if net.general exists or not. 2. I am surprised that anyone would unsubscribe from net.general, no matter what the mixture of inappropriate messages might be. It still isn't a high-traffic group, like net.music or net.unix, so there isn't that much of a load on anyone to scan it. To those at the BOF that had unsubscribed: did you do this for a philosophical reason, or was reading net.general really an imposition on you? 3. To Mark -- post instructions for all of us to use so we, too, can put the stuff in our postings that you put in your item (base to this followup), which moved the followups from net.announce to net.news.group. It sounds quite useful, and should be general knowledge. Will