Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site moncol.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!petsd!moncol!john From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: An observation and a question Message-ID: <546@moncol.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 12:40:33 EST Article-I.D.: moncol.546 Posted: Sun Oct 27 12:40:33 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 04:01:47 EST Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Lines: 38 First the observation: The "official" history of net.bizarre states that it was accidentally created and then had its existence justified. As I recall, there was some concern in those days that by not allowing it to exist, the stuff that would have gone there would be posted to places like net.flame and net.jokes causing serious net pollution. Now that net.bizarre is officially gone, has anyone noticed that the worst has not happened. Bizarreness has not overwhlemed the rest of the net. Hmmm... I wonder... If a rmgroup was thusly applied to something like net.flame would its need similarly go away? (No, I am not so naive as to believe that there would not be flames, but many flames and flamers exist outside of net.flame already. Actually, much of net.flame is cross-posted from some other group already.) Now the question: I did not follow the fa->mod discussion, so forgive a naive question. I notice that there are now mod.* groups being gatewayed from APRA that had no fa.* equivalent. Are all the groups really going to be used of are thy here to fill in the namespace? If it is the former, won't that cause more overburdening of USENET than the likes of a net.bizarre or net.internat ever could? -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 571-3451 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john "It all started out as a mild curiousity in a junkyard... and now it's turned out to be quite a spirit of adventure."