mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (06/19/84)
At the Usenet BOF, the proposal was made to get rid of net.general.
The following reasons came up:
(1) The volume of junk on net.general has gotten out of hand lately.
There is no way to control it, and people get offended when it
is pointed out that their article does not belong on net.general.
(2) A show of hands indicated that almost everyone present had already
unsubscribed. Thus, it isn't a very good way to reach lots of people.
(3) net.announce would take the traffic that really belonged in net.general.
The traffic that didn't would belong on some other appropriate newsgroup.
People choosing net.general because they couldn't think of a better
newsgroup would be forced to think of a better newsgroup - net.general
was never appropriate for such traffic.
There were, amazingly enough, no serious objections to removing net.general.
However, there was a great deal of concern that somebody who was unable to
attend the BOF might have an objection. For this reason, I want to give
everybody who has an opinion a chance to speak. If the majority of the
net wants it to go, it will go.
We can either keep net.followup for followup discussions to net.general,
or nuke it as well, depending on the sentiment of the net.
Followup discussion to net.news.group, please. I have put headers on this
article to cause followups to go to net.news.group automatically if you
run 2.10 or later.
Mark Horton