Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!tower From: tower@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Nuke net.{general,followup} - (nf) Message-ID: <1532@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 07:43:24 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1532 Posted: Wed Jun 20 07:43:24 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 06:22:11 EDT Lines: 33 #R:nsc:-107100:inmet:7000063:000:1243 inmet!tower Jun 19 12:38:00 1984 A good idea. It will take a long time to really work. Why? Many local and regional distributions have a *.general, that serve the same purpose as net.general. The extrapolation upwards is natural. So, net.general will continue to be used at many sites by many casual USENET users. Thus, it will continue to be propagated into USENET, as net.trivia has been for a long time! I suggest instead: 1) That the official definition of net.general be changed to be closer to net.misc, and contain a pointer to net.announce. This change should be made in alice!alb semi-monthly list of groups, the emily-post document and the other documents posted in net.announce.newuser. It should also be posted to net.general regularly for several months. 2) Someone screen net.general for possible re-postings to net.announce for a few months. 3) net.followup also have its description changed: to something like: net.folllowup An out-of-date newsgroup used to contain followups to net.general. When traffic gets to zero for a while, it can be rm'ed. 4) If nsc!chuqui gets his new news software up, the backbone sites can rename all articles for net.general and net.followup to net.misc. -len tower {ihnp4,harpo}!inmet!tower Cambridge, MA