Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-ngp.UTEXAS Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!bala From: bala@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (bala) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: Removing net.flame Message-ID: <1996@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:23:02 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1996 Posted: Mon Jul 8 13:23:02 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 04:46:57 EDT References: <3892@alice.UUCP> <484@oliveb.UUCP> <268@luke.UUCP> <1304@cbosgd.UUCP> <8853@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas/Austin Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.news:3605 net.news.group:3239 From: fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) Message-ID: <8853@ucbvax.ARPA> > For the class of postings that appear in both net.flame and in some > other newsgroup, having net.flame does no good, since the flames are > also being posted to the group involved. Ucbvax keeps one month of > netnews on line, and the numbers there are 49% cross posted (338 > articles), 51% only in net.flame (359 articles). > So half the identified flames on the network already DO appear in the > other newsgroups. Has anyone looked at net.politics or net.women recently and to a lesser degree net.social and net.followup? I think the "stats" on net.politics and maybe net.women approach the 50% cross-posting like net.flame. I was just reviewing the last 200-250 articles on net.politics and most of them were cross-posted with net.women and/or net.social and/or net.followup. "You know what I really hate?" I hate to have to continually use the 'n' key in vnews (ut-ngp doesn't have rn) having already read the particular articles in another newsgroup. net.politics really pulls in articles so the cross-posting doesn't help any. Maybe the discussion on net.flame will also address the problems with cross-posting (especially net.politics since almost any discussion can be [and is] considered 'political').