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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
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> 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
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