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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: An observation and a question
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Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 12:40:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 27 12:40:33 1985
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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?


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