preece@uicsl.UUCP (09/13/83)
#N:uicsl:5400020:000:1250 uicsl!preece Sep 12 11:30:00 1983 The use of net.general has been getting broader and broader lately. The average hot topic comes in as a news item or query, draws a little response (or a lot, as in the case of KAL007), then sits for awhile and starts turning up in various appropriate followup files (e.g., net.flame). Unfortunately, the nature of this net is to be asynchronous. It's not uncommon for a posting to take a week to get from one fringe site to another. The recipient responds immediately in the originating group, which seems appropriate, and that response filters back to everyone else sometime later. The result is that discussion begin again in net.general. We need some kind of mapping mechanism to allow moving whole strings of notes out of one file into another, so that any note with a certain 'Re:...' title or responding to a particular note, would automatically move to a different file. I'm not, unfortunately, suggesting any way to do it... What prompts this is that there are several things in net.general today that I would like to respond to, but I have promised people by mail that I would not say anymore on the subjects involved in net.general. I think maybe there's something to be said for moderators... scott preece pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece