Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxe!chas From: chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Remove net.general?? Send me your votes Message-ID: <1189@ihuxe.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 19:03:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxe.1189 Posted: Thu Jun 27 19:03:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:49:14 EDT References: <15204@watmath.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 > it's about time net.general was banished from the phone lines of the > earth. > .... > let's just zap it, and let the jerks find > another place to post their garage sale ads. Emphatically NO. There is need for an unmoderated announcement channel (net.announce is moderated) to carry announcements that are too urgent (i.e late) to go through the moderation process. The solution is to name the group so that "jerks" (or the non-savants) who don't read net.announce.newusers don't think it's general discussion group. Create mod.announce, un-moderate net.announce and THEN remove net.general. Charlie Lambert @ the Death Star, IL.