Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame,net.religion,net.politics,net.philosophy Subject: Re: net.bizarre is just the first... Message-ID: <1085@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 12:12:47 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1085 Posted: Fri Nov 1 12:12:47 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 21:34:48 EST References: <1319@pucc-k> Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 30 Xref: lsuc net.news.group:1468 net.flame:2175 net.religion:539 net.politics:1799 net.philosophy:497 In article <1319@pucc-k> rsk@pucc-k (Wombat) writes: >First off, I support the decision made by the backbone site admins and >implemented by Gene Spafford 100%. > >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. >-- >Rich Kulawiec rsk@pur-ee.uucp rsk@purdue.uucp rsk@purdue-asc.arpa Isn't this a catch-22? You have to have demonstrated volume to create a newsgroup, but these groups should be deleted to "cut our volume by 25%". Also, who decides what "redeeming value" is? Do these groups have no redeeming value just because some people express opinions in them which don't agree with your own? (And note: the original article went to net.flame and net.news.group. It did _not_ go to net.religion, net.politics, or net.philosophy, which seems somewhat unfair.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'. Kenneth Arromdee BITNET: G46I4701 at JHUVM and INS_AKAA at JHUVMS CSNET: ins_akaa@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_akaa%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa