julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) (03/06/84)
I'm paying for this sites mail and news costs from my own limited research money, and rather wish that the whole class of "net" groups were partitioned into those of "technical" content and the others. We dial out to receive news, and are somewhat at the mercy of our neighbour as to what newsgroups get delivered. We get more than we would really need because it's so fiddly getting "them" to keep track of what we want, -- adminstrative nuisance for them and there are limits on how long the system control lines can become. I can Unsubscribe to newsgroups easily enough, but still get to pay the bills for them being shipped here. Herewith a plea for some thought to be given to this in future releases of news code, and in newsgroup naming strategies. Julian Davies ..!watmath!deepthot!julian or ..!utzoo!uwo!julian