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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Cutting back newsgroups
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 12:57:24 EDT
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In his article Will suggested that the news documentation should be updated to
include information for sites that wanted to support a subset of news groups.
This seems to be a sensible suggestion, but it reminded me of a related
problem.

Use of groups is intended to provide a framework so that information and
discussions on a particular topic are kept together.  If a large number of
sites decide to support a subset of newsgroups then the system will be
subverted.  I already see a number of items that start with words like,
"I know this is the wrong group, but we do not get net.whatever".

I know that there are reasons, such as limited disk capacity, that may restrict
a site's ability to support all of the groups.  Has anyone out there got any
bright ideas about how to support a subset of newsgroups without making life
more difficult for those sites that support all of the groups.

-- 
Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!sjl

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