Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!fair From: fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: Newsgroup creations and deletions Message-ID: <9830@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 23:09:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9830 Posted: Sat Aug 10 23:09:43 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 23:44:13 EDT References: <725@vortex.UUCP> <1352@cbosgd.UUCP> <1438@islenet.UUCP> Followup-To: net.news.group Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 Xref: linus net.news:2999 net.news.group:2774 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