Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabs!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: news groups come and go... Message-ID: <1825@hao.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 14:38:55 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1825 Posted: Mon Oct 28 14:38:55 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:56:35 EST References: <30@calma.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 18 > Is there any particular net overhead to have more groups rather > than less? Yes. It encourages the posting of material that might not otherwise have been posted. > More groups would make things easier to find... This is CLEARLY a debatable point. One of the major objections to keyword-based news has been that too many keywords lead to difficulty in finding the articles you want, and eliminating those you don't want. --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!noao | mcvax!seismo | ihnp4!noao} !hao!woods CSNET: woods@NCAR ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY