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.
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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!


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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473