Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihuxb!alle From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England) Newsgroups: net.tv.soaps Subject: Re: Proposed new newsgroups Message-ID: <1107@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:32:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.1107 Posted: Wed Jul 17 06:32:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:38:10 EDT References: <2121@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <2137@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <2589@randvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 > 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. --> Allen <-- ihnp4!ihuxb!alle