Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliveb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!long From: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: magic numbers Message-ID: <574@oliveb.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:31:40 EDT Article-I.D.: oliveb.574 Posted: Sun Aug 25 01:31:40 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:05:17 EDT References: <745@vortex.UUCP> <500@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Reply-To: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long) Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 13 One idea for solving this sort of problem would be to have a "trial period" for newsgroups. Each newsgroup created could be given 6 weeks to show how much it has a need for existing before it would be nuked. Eventually, once people get used to the idea that newsgroups will be nuked for lack of signal/noise, then perhaps we could see about justifying the existence of current newsgroups. Dave Long -- {hplabs,fortune,idi,ihnp4,tolerant,allegra,tymix}!oliveb!long Then the Usenetter said to the Architecht: "From *where* did you think the chaos came?" -- Var. on Trad. Joke