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From: fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: Newsgroup creations and deletions
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 23:09:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 10 23:09:43 1985
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The meeting in question was held at the Salt Lake City USENIX
Conference, June 1984, (or was it Dallas? My memory fails me on this
point) publicly announced to all conference attendees in the usual way
you announce a BOF session (by posting a notice on the BOF board).  As
I remember the outcome of that meeting, the consensus was

1. net.general was pretty bad (high volume of total junk),
	and few people (by hand count) were still reading it.

2. removal of net.general was of sufficient import that it should be
	put to the community at large to decide.

This was in no way a private meeting of network gurus. It was a public
Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) Session at a USENIX Conference. There were
about 150 people in the audience, most of whom seemed to be just users
of the network, rather than site administrators.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU