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From: mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: time to remove net.bizarre
Message-ID: <365@cad.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 14:06:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 14:06:43 1985
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From: ahby@meccts ? (Shane P. McCarron)
>I wasn't an original supporter... I'm not even a current supporter,
>but it seems to me that the rules say  a group will be removed
>when its traffic becomes so low that it is no longer necessary.  Is
>net.bizzares traffic low?  I don't think so, but I haven't checked
>lately.
No, the traffic is by no means low, but many people seem to agree that it is
drivel.  One of the reasons a group can be removed is that it has little
traffic; in the case of net.bizarre, people are proposing instead to remove a
group because it is all noise and no content.  (This argument has been made
against net.flame in the past, and possibly other groups as well.)

>For the people who are being heavy-handed about this group, the real
>issue is:  would you like a group you cared about to be attacked in
>this way?  I certainly wouldn't!
Are there really people who care about net.bizarre?  I mean, there are
probably people who think it's amusing, but do they really *care* about it?
Also, recall that net.bizarre was created in a non-standard way; the original
supporters bullied the net into keeping it (by continuing to create it when
it got deleted).  Given that, I think it's ok to violate or change SOP in
dealing with the group's removal.

Net.bizarre is a major pollutant, and it does not appear to be meeting its
original purpose.  It has turned into the dregs of net.jokes; things that no
one would feel appropriate for the net in general get posted in net.bizarre 
routinely.  After the first week (when people protested "sensible" postings
in net.bizarre) it degenerated, and the original supporters have not come out
yet to defend it.

I think it is time to get rid net.bizarre and give the few people who really
want it a mailing list.

							-Dragon


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