Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!alb 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 Article-I.D.: alice.3283 Posted: Mon Jan 14 19:42:08 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 02:26:18 EST References: <336@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 10 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.