Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures Keywords: delete obsolete newsgroups Message-ID: <5629@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 2 Oct 89 19:35:51 GMT References: <3137@ur-cc.UUCP> <1989Sep26.212755.8458@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <4492@ncar.ucar.edu> <2908@splut.conmicro.com> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Organization: If you lived here you'd be home by now Lines: 10 In-reply-to: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) a person writes: ) The fewer newsgroups there are, the harder it is to find the right ) group to post in. I don't want to advance the proposition that the author of the above statement is a pinheaded idiot, but the statement itself is obvious pinheaded idiocy. Just take it to the limit: if there were only one newsgroup, it would be trivial to select the right one for each article. ________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu