stevans (11/05/82)
According to the documentation of our program for posting news, inews, the default board is net.general. I suspect that, if this is true for other sites, this is why we see such stuff as hamburgers and licenses here (and flame like this). Many users probably wouldn't put as many irrelevancies here if they had to explicitly declare their board. I propose that net.misc be made the default for submissions at all sites.