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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
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 16:56:01 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 04:08:41 EST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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	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
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