Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ritcv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!mjl From: mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Lutz) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: An observation and a question Message-ID: <8983@ritcv.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:23:38 EST Article-I.D.: ritcv.8983 Posted: Thu Oct 31 11:23:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:04:52 EST References: <546@moncol.UUCP> <623@k.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Michael Lutz) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 19 In article <623@k.cs.cmu.edu> mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne) writes: >If people are really serious about reducing net traffic, net.flame should be >removed immediately. If people aren't serious about traffic, then >net.bizarre should never have been deleted. ... > >Vote YES to delete net.flame. Michael is right, so here's my vote to delete net.flame. In fact, I vote to delete all the groups that were on the utzoo hit list. We'd then have the bandwidth to support net.internat (or whatever) and many, many more specialty newsgroups while still significantly reducing overall traffic. Join the Henry Spencer Memorial USENET Preservation Society today! (Memorial because I'm certain Henry has been incinerated by flame-mail). -- Mike Lutz Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY UUCP: {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!mjl CSNET: mjl%rit@csnet-relay.ARPA