Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site stc70.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!stcvax!stc70!dlb From: dlb@stc70.UUCP (David Black) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: nuke net.general? Message-ID: <105@stc70.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 11:03:43 EDT Article-I.D.: stc70.105 Posted: Wed Jun 20 11:03:43 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 11:05:25 EDT References: <32@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Storage Technology Corp. Louisville, CO Lines: 18 I know that there are many serious people out there who don't want to waste their time on net.general but I would ask you to unsubscribe rather than to nuke it. I enjoy its hodge-podge of messages. It and net.followup often have discussions on topics that are of general interest/concern that would be lost to many if they were posted to more "appropriate" news groups. An example is the discussion of the case of unc!tim. This was of concern to many, but would have been lost in net.legal or any of the other specialized news groups. We can use at least one news group to function as a newspaper rather than a special-interest publication. It seems that this is a rather interesting case of a newsgroup being used for what many seem to think is a "useful" purpose rather than its "intended" purpose. It is being used, those who don't like its current use should use one of the other groups for their special purposes, as some have proposed. So leave it, let it die from lack of use rather than misuse (or what might be better called "its new use"). Send flames to net.general :-) David Black