richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (02/18/89)
I don't understand you people sometimes.
Sometimes, people get all upset over volume in a newsgroup; feeds
are pulled, heirarchies are dropped.
Somebody wants to gateway USENET onto another piece of electronic
wizardry, and a big fuss breaks out if they dont pump some volume
back onto the NET.
And whats worse than a group with high volume ? Why a group with
*low* volume. Nuke it.
Is there a a magic level at which a group has ``perfect''
volume ? Wouldn't that change depending on the size
of the net, the capacity of the ``average'' USENET site ?
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decwrl!gryphon!richard killer!gryphon!richard ames!elroy!gryphon!richardjfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) (02/20/89)
In article <12231@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >And whats worse than a group with high volume ? Why a group with >*low* volume. Nuke it. A high volume, high noise newsgroup? How about picking the number one newsgroup every month and rmgroup'ing it? If you want to lower the volume, we aren't going to do it by removing empty newsgroups. We also aren't going to do it by creating new newsgroups. >Is there a a magic level at which a group has ``perfect'' >volume ? Wouldn't that change depending on the size >of the net, the capacity of the ``average'' USENET site ? Now there is an idea. Any newsgroup whose traffic can't be realistically handled by the machine in question should be removed. Start with the apple2 newsgroups for example. Better still, time for another great renaming. Move all of the PC related [ Not just IBM variety, include MACS, AMIGAS, etc ] groups into a new hierarchy. We could call it the 'pc' hierarchy. -- John F. Haugh II +--Quote of the Week:------------------ VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | "If I do not want others to quote me, InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne UucpNet : <backbone>!killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------
jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) (02/22/89)
In article <12976@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes: > Better still, time for another great renaming. Move all of > the PC related [ Not just IBM variety, include MACS, AMIGAS, > etc ] groups into a new hierarchy. We could call it the 'pc' > hierarchy. I could live with this, and then I could simply put "!pc" in my sys file, ask uunet to do the same, and all of it would quickly and quietly disappear. Especially the pc-type binary groups. --jim ------------- James B. O'Connor jim@tiamat.fsc.com Filtration Sciences Corporation 615/821-4022 x. 651 *** Altos users unite! mail to "info-altos-request@tiamat.fsc.com" ***