Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!steven From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.news.group Subject: Re: Boy, is net.politics busy these days... Message-ID: <6210@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 07:43:23 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.6210 Posted: Fri Nov 30 07:43:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:01:44 EST References: <137@talcott.UUCP> Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Distribution: net Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 19 Xref: godot net.politics:3356 net.news.group:978 In article <137@talcott.UUCP> gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) writes: > In fact, net.politics is about eight times as busy as, say, net.math or > net.physics. I suggest we split it up into some or all of the following: > > net.politics.abortion > net.politics.economic > net.politics.foreign > net.politics.nukes > net.politics.rights > net.politics.sevener :-) > Well, perhaps it's because I use rn and so can kill a whole subject that the traffic in net.politics doesn't bother me. For instance I never read anything on libertarianism, which seems to cause a lot of traffic. But still I'm very unsure about this division; another abortion group? And what does 'politics.foreign' mean in the context of an international net? Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam, apparently in Sweden :-)