Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!harpo!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame Subject: Re: net.bizarre is just the first... Message-ID: <828@psivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 10:43:38 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.828 Posted: Fri Nov 1 10:43:38 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:19:57 EST References: <1319@pucc-k> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4239 net.flame:12623 In article <1319@pucc-k> rsk@pucc-k (Wombat) writes: > > net.bizarre is permanently dead at this site. >I think net.religion, net.politics, and net.philosophy are next, simply >because they are soapboxes (and big ones at that) with little or no redeeming >value. I expect that the deletion of these four groups will cut our volume >by 25%, maybe more. >-- A suggestion for a new net policy. If a site is going to unilaterally stop forwarding a group it should notify its downstream sites a fair period ahead of time and *suggest* *alternate* feeds for these groups to the sites they feed, so that there is at least a chance that other sites will not find themselves losing a group they want. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) UUCP: {ttidca|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|quad1|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!friesen ARPA: ttidca!psivax!friesen@rand-unix.arpa