Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!potomac!jtn From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: The death of USENET Message-ID: <6359@potomac.ads.com> Date: 27 Jun 88 21:56:23 GMT References: <7475@swan.ulowell.edu> <2645@rpp386.UUCP> <56228@sun.uucp> <8545@netsys.UUCP> Reply-To: jtn@potomac.UUCP (John T. Nelson) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA Lines: 48 From: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose) Subject: Re: The death of USENET > Is there any way to formalize Chuq's proposals,and get them acted on > by the net at large? Or should I say the "backbone" at large. This, of course, raises the old Backbone Cabal arguments which I'll let some other poor slob step into. I think it would be atrociously antisocial though, to simply write up a set of proposals and then convince a restricted, yet powerful group of net administrators to act upon them "on behalf of the network at large." Yeh... not cool at all. > Binary > and noise groups being deleted would reduce overall traffic by at > least 30 percent. Eliminating microcomputer groups should be held off > as long as possible since pc's play an important part in today's > computing environment and are often part of a Unix oriented network. Which groups are more important than others depends upon the environment you come from. For those sites with no microcomputers, these groups might be the first to go. I agree, however, that the binary groups are fair game. No one wants to spread an epidemic of computer viruses. If you don't have a compiler to compile source code then you probably don't want public domain stuff anyway. I agree that a lot of the noise groups could go away. Talk.bizzare is fair game. Maybe soc.singles... just maybe. It really depends on your point of view. Me? I just expire them quickly or restrict them from my site altogether. This keeps disk usage down which is the real expense. > Just my opinion,so please treat it as such.. I have no illusions as to > what weight it carries.. Flames are stupid and waste spool space. So are ill-considered opinions. ... and hey ... let's be particularly careful out there, okay guys? -- John T. Nelson UUCP: sun!sundc!potomac!jtn Advanced Decision Systems Internet: jtn@potomac.ads.com 1500 Wilson Blvd #512; Arlington, VA 22209-2401 (703) 243-1611 "Hi... My name is Hobbes. I'm the product of a malicious 5-year old's twisted and destructive imagination. Would YOU like to be my friend?"