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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.general.newusers; short proposal, long argument
Message-ID: <3283@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 19:42:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 19:42:08 1985
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What a waste of a newsgroup!  The guidelines for using net.general
can be summarized in one article.  You want to create a group just
for that?  Come on!  

The solution to the whole problem of wasted traffic on the net (of
which net.general is just a small part) can never be solved by
creating more newsgroups.  On the contrary, that just increases the
problem.  If people aren't reading net.announce.newsusers, then they
aren't going to read net.general.newsusers just because it's in a
different place.