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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: Proposed new newsgroups
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:32:52 EDT
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> It'll never fly.  There is hardly enough traffic in net.tv.soaps to
> warrant a separate newsgroup for soaps at all, and there's certainly
> not enough traffic for those 2 shows to justify creating separate
> groups for them.  From what I've seen in net.news.group (where
> creation of new groups is discussed), it takes a *minimum* of about
> 10-15 messages per week to justify a new group, and even then there
> has to be a real good reason for it.

In the case of net.tv.soaps, the "real good reason" was the anger amongst
serious TV'ers (i.e. the readers of net.tv) due to the soap updates we
were posting in net.tv.

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