Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule. Message-ID: <1809@looking.UUCP> Date: 4 Jul 88 04:40:54 GMT References: <960@ficc.UUCP> <11275@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <9775@g.ms.uky.edu> <11582@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 23 In article <11582@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> skyler@violet.berkeley.edu writes: >Putting a group in alt would not be discrimination. It would, quite >simply, not give the information which a decision on a group requires. Exactly the opposite, I would say, although I still suggest "trial" instead of "alt". Having a 'trial' distribution of *deliberately* limited distribution is exactly what we want. You get the most adventuresome, tolerant sites trying out the group without bothering (and costing) the entire net. If a group can't survive with the more willing sites in the trial distribution, then it is a very good sign it would not do proportionately better when extrapolated out. (By better, I mean in readership of course, not posting volume. High posting volume should be immediate cause for not continuing A trial group, in my opinion.) Anyway, the whole point is to limit the trial distribution. That's what's good about it! -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473