Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ab3 From: ab3@pucc-h (Darth Wombat) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: New Groups Message-ID: <528@pucc-h> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 16:56:01 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.528 Posted: Wed Feb 8 16:56:01 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 04:08:41 EST Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 31 Proper!geoff - I agree with some of your comments about the futility of trying to read news in a clogged newsgroup @ 1200 baud; BUT *your* situation is hardly typical! Most of us who read news at >= 2400 baud find the existence of multiple, redundant newsgroups with overlapping topics more of a pain than waiting for unwanted article headers to scroll by. Witness the proliferation of Macintosh articles in net.micro when there is a group called net.apple! And a couple of quick comments in response... > If I say yes and the article is over 16 lines, I also have to pay several > seconds while the San Francisco system loads 'more' for me. You could set your PAGER environment variable to "cat"... > To take your comment to its extreme, why not just have a single giant > newsgroup and let people type "n" to every one of the thousands of > articles that are posted weekly? I trust the answer is obvious. I have not advocated such a move. I am simply opposed to the needless proliferation of newsgroups without a clear demonstration of traffic, interest, orthogonality to current groups, and widespread network support...i.e. it should be a lot harder to create a newsgroup, and a lot easier to remove one. -- "Go ahead...make my day." Darth Wombat ARPA: rsk@purdue UUCP: { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, seismo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk