Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: magic numbers Message-ID: <500@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 15:47:59 EDT Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.500 Posted: Wed Aug 21 15:47:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:16:25 EDT References: <745@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking Lines: 16 I don't feel that we should start to interpret the numbers too literally, because they are anything but exact. A newsgroup that thirty people bother to vote for may well be one that three hundred will use when it pops up in the course of their news reading. Or perhaps only fifty people are even marginally interested in the subject. There is really no way of knowing. Some better way is needed (gee, what an original observation). Perhaps ALL newsgroups should be mailing lists that through high volume and large membership become eligible for newsgroup status. This would eliminate most of the pointless "A lot of people wanted it!" and "You call that a lot?" and "You guys are just idiots for wanting this thing!" debates that now constitute the newsgroup genesis process. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!"